On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 03:20:06PM -0400, Alex deVries wrote:
> Florian Lohoff wrote:
> >The firmware loads an ecoff file from a volume header - The volume
> >header is a special partition with a "minimalistic" filesystem
> >in it - This can be modified by "dvhtool".
>
> Okay. I see an example of that mentioned in your mail in
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-mips/2002/debian-mips-200204/msg00056.html
> . That seems to match with an EFS volume header.
>
> So making a tool that writes the 8k volume header is easy. If I
> understand properly, that points to a filename on the EFS filesystem
> that follows it.
>
> What open source tools do we have to create such an EFS filesystem?
None .. Its not EFS - The Volume Header filesystem is MUCH simpler ...
Look into dvhtool to understand it ...
Flo
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