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E.7 Running the Flash Management Utility

 

The run command is used to run the flash management utility. Before you start you will need a device available to Milo that contains the updateflash program. This (like vmlinux) can be gzip'd. You need to run the flash management utility program from the Milo using the (run) command:

     MILO> run fd0:fmu.gz

Once it has loaded and initialised, the flash management utility will tell you some information about the flash device and give you a command prompt. Again the help command is most useful.

Linux Milo Flash Management Utility V1.0

Flash device is an Intel 28f008SA
  16 segments, each of 0x10000 (65536) bytes
Scanning Flash blocks for usage
Block 12 contains the environment variables
FMU>

Note that on systems where environment variables may be stored and where there is more than one flash block (for example, the AlphaPC64) the flash management utility will look for a block to hold Milo's environment variables. If such a block already exists, the flash management utility will tell you where it is. Otherwise, you must use the environment command to set a block and initialise it. In the above example, flash block 12 contains Milo's environment variables.





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