Flash erase block sizes are typically 4MB or a near power of two these days - pretty large.

The OpenWRT folks "resolved" this by adding a printk that mentions the FPU emulation is disabled somewhere early in the boot, but not making the kernel option visible or preventing the infinite emulator trap.

You should note that grub-pc for lenny is missing part_msdos.mod and will not install, you need to fetch it from backports to get the file.

Thanks for the info though, it helped me to confirm what I was doing would work before I sent a remote machine through a reboot (I know, dangeous, but couldn't be helped)

Another good one: To use a cacheing proxy for your packages, add this line to a similar file:

Hi Jim,

I noticed the same problem with the nilfs_cleanerd. Upgrading (from source, in my case) to nilfs-utils 2.0.13 solved the problem for me.

Niek

I have provoked the computer spirits. The P4 I just benchmarked and decided I could live without has suffered a hard disk failure of its primary disk.

You saved me many (more) hours of head pounding with this blog entry.  I am thoroughly grateful.

At some point in the past I managed to screw up my file server's lenny install in such a way that I ended up with the non-lvm ext2 boot partition commented out of fstab and a separate /boot directory on the lvm root.

I forgot about this incident and went about continuing to run apt-get dist-upgrade periodically.  Everything worked until I went to squeeze and rebooted, at which point I made some more poor choices ("Why am I not running the new kernel?  I'll just apt-get remove the old one!") and ended up unable to mount ext2 partitions (while still able to boot from one).

After about eight hours of head scratching I found this page and by following your steps had no trouble upgrading to GRUB 2 which booted the new kernel which fixed all the problems, allowing me to get on with my life (such as it is).

You are awesome and so is GRUB 2.

You don't need to echo 1, 2, and 3.  As the page you link to makes clear, it's a bit-mask.  Echoing 3 alone is succifient after the sync.

Yes, it is that bit of logic that makes the } else if { not work.

Aw nuts, now I need to implement "delete attachment". The 1.3 version adds a little 'flash' badge instead of just a grey box and a way to edit your whitelist.

Oh, I neglected the "// a bunch of code to see if it is in the cache" part.  Yeah, don't be afraid of using goto-s.  There's nothing wrong with them when used properly.

Why not simply:

if (code == 36) {
   value = 99;
} else if (code_in_cache(code)) {
   value = code_from_cache(code);
} else if (...) {
   // Notice how there is no nesting?
}

Those google ads are nice. I almost never get enticed by an ad, but two of the google ads on this site have lured me into visiting the advertiser. (Google's terms forbid me from clicking, so I have to type in the URL.)

Ack! Google is giving me annoying animated graphic ads. I signed up for "text and image" ads, apparently they consider distracting animations to be an image.

I might mention that there are still some jpegs that will crash the quicktime encoder that are valid according to jpeginfo, but it gets most of them.

I just built dfu-programmer for etch with these steps, and attached it to the parent article (I guess I should implement attachments for comments.)

hello

can you tell me how to install dfu-programmer on debian etch?
i can not find the package with apt.

greetings remo

I successfully started a converted windows vista evaulation vhd I'm still fighting with the mouse and vnc :)

the bsod is probably a 7b error (inaccessible boot device, you may need to fix system registry hive to use standard ide but it's tricky and you need a windows box or of course a working windows vm :D)

contact me if interested (sherpya@netfarm.it)

I've fixed the compilation error and made it 64bit aware, I still need to test it anyway here the download link:

http://oss.netfarm.it/download/vhd2img-64bit-aware.tar.bz2

(use wget or direct link, a link from a page will cause 503)