Suggested mechanism of burning a LinuxBIOS on FLASH ROMS

[Deepak Kotian]

Hi ,

Are there any more suggestions or easier ways to do the burning process
so that I avoid any kind of Flash programmer or emulator. Basically which
would save time during the development process. Buying an emulator or
flash programmer would be the last thing for me.
I guess, The below concept is not very feasible.

Please let me know your views on the same.

Thanks and Regards
Deepak



----- Original Message -----
From: "Deepak Kotian" <dkotian3 at vsnl.net>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederman at lnxi.com>
Cc: <linuxbios at clustermatic.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 1:07 AM
Subject: Re: Suggested mechanism of burning a LinuxBIOS on FLASH ROMS


> Thanks Eric.
> I have a spare FLASH ROM.
> Could you please elaborate on the process of "hot swap", is it that I
> can replace the FLASH ROM with the corrupted one with
> the backup flash ROM, then once it boots up, I can just replace the
> corrupted FLASH ROM while the O.S. is up and burn the
> backed up bios from the harddisk onto the corrupted FLAH ROMS.
> Is this correct and feasible, please elaborate..
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederman at lnxi.com>
> To: "Deepak Kotian" <dkotian3 at vsnl.net>
> Cc: <linuxbios at clustermatic.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 1:00 AM
> Subject: Re: Suggested mechanism of burning a LinuxBIOS on FLASH ROMS
>
>
> > "Deepak Kotian" <dkotian3 at vsnl.net> writes:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >     This may be a very basic simple question, but I do not know a very
> good
> > > answer/solution
> > >
> > >     to do this.
> > >
> > >     If I want to burn LinuxBIOS, I can use the burn_mtd script , it
may
> write it
> > >
> > >     successfully as well, but if linuxbios is not correctly built. I
> cannot get
> > > the
> > >
> > >     any O.S started on this machine, which means I would need to
replace
> the
> > >     BIOS FLASH ROM with a one with proper BIOS and bring up the
machine.
> > >     Is there a way I can re-program the old BIOS on to the corrupted
> FLASH ROMS.
> > >
> > >     Please note,I do not have a PLC or any kind of FLASH programmer
with
> me. Can
> > >
> > >     I do without it.
> >
> > Usually it is recommeded for bootstraping and development that you
either
> > have a spare rom chip, which you can hot swap in to flash, or that you
> have
> > an external burner.
> >
> >
> > Eric
> >
>
>
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