mtd & bios flashing

[Nathanael Noblet]

Hello again, you may be sick of my questions today but well here's 
another one..;)

I read over the Sis630 howto. It does explain pretty well how to get 
this all flashed. I have two problems, it uses the flash_on / 
flash_and_burn programs which don't work on my board (sis 530 based). I 
don't know where to start to get that working pointers would be nice if 
this is the road I should take. I say should take, because it was 
mentioned that I could use the mtd utils to burn to the flash that the 
original bios is on. I don't understand how I can do this. I haven't 
seen anything in the mtd packages that would allow me to find the bios 
holding flash chip. I also noticed that some of the instructions assume 
that the DoC and the flash are in the same socket (as in you remove the 
flash chip and replace it with a DoC) my particular board has a PLCC 
type flash AND a DoC. I have the DoC working close to perfectly. I had 
grub installed and able to boot from it. I was thinking of installing a 
jffs2 file system on it. I also am just realizing that I wouldn't be 
using grub or any "bootloader" persay. Which is good because well, the 
grub doesn't support jffs2 I don't think.

	In anycase, here is what I wonder about. Do I need to go about finding 
out how to access the flash holding the regular bios so as to be able 
to flash it? Is there documentation on basic procedures to do this. If 
there is an easier way, please let me know of that instead.

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Nathanael Noblet
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