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Subject: RE: [9fans] supported ipaq's?
From: Sape Mullender <sape@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 05:08:25 -0400
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> i mean the flash partition setup supported by the bootldr.
> from the bootldr command prompt i do
>
> "partition reset"
> "partition define params 0x40000 0x400000"
> "partition define kernel 0x80000 ...."
>
> etc.  "partition save" to save this (somewhere) in the param space.
>
> that works fine.  i can then do "boot kernel" to boot the kernel
> from the "kernel" flash sector.  if i reset and go back to the
> bootldr prompt the saved partition setup has gone.  i have to
> restore it to boot.

List the partitions after you're done (partition show).  Make sure the
bootldr doesn't have any conflicting partitions of its own.

(And you need `params save', not `partition save'.)