[coreboot] ### coreboot, geode lx
David H. Barr
dhbarr at gozelle.com
Wed Feb 27 05:41:11 CET 2008
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Steve Spano <steve at fl-eng.com> wrote:
>
> So you suggest dd'ing the card to all zeros.
> Then reinstalling grub/ext3 partition - and that should work with the
> "stock" filo/etherboot code in the corebios?
Not really necessary to dd the whole card to zero, even if you take
this route -- I blast 1 MB of zeroes, and it effectively takes care of
MBR, weird partitions that don't respect fdisk, and so forth.
Probably only a few KB of that are even necessary, but 1 MB is nice
and easy to remember.
HTH,
-dhbarr.
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