Re: Can grub be made into a minikernel?

[Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 05:14:34AM -0800, Kenneth Stailey wrote:
> --- "B. Douglas Hilton" <bdhilton@charter.net> wrote:
> > Possibly I could simulate a floppy using the loop device,
> > somehow place grub on it, dd it into a file, and load
> > that into the nvram, but that would be pretty risky,
> > as I could forever lose my only boot loader. 
> 
> Except for the web site that tells you how to reload it.
> 
> http://www.netwinder.org/docs.html

You can only reload it if the first 64K of the flash is intact.
If you mess the first 64K up, you'll have a brick instead of a
machine.