Hi,

I want to boot an alternative kernel on my NAS with minimal changes to the flash. I suppose this could be possible by using diskboot. My problem is now that I am very new to the bootloader problematic and the documentation for ppcboot is rather short and the documentation for uboot seems not to fit. From the sources of the diskboot command I understand that it expects a dos partition and reads continuous blocks from this partition. Does this mean I need a dos partition and have to write the kernel image with dd to it? It doesn't look like it supports the dos filesystem, or is the dos fs really so simple? But if it is not using the dos fs, why has the partition to be of type dos?

Hopefully I didn't make myself a fool and overlooked the obvious.

Gerald