OK, sent to the list to try and keep things where people can see them. Also
copied to Nick since someone said he wasn't seeing list email atm, Nick can
you confirm you are reading the list?

I just tried using my new bootldr.small to do a load of bootldr.fast via
minicom so that I could see the error messages - this is what I got:

boot> load bootldr
partition bootldr is a bootldr partition:
 requiring a bootldr or parrot image.
 After receiving file, will automatically uncompress .gz images
loading flash region bootldr
using xmodem
ready for xmodem download..
ded to C0000400

programming flash...
unlocking boot sector of flash
amdFlashProtectRange: unimplemented!!
erasing ...
Erasing sector 00000000
Erasing sector 00010000
eraseFlashSector timeout
  flashp=50010000
  flashAddress=00010000
  flashContents=00000000
  oldFlashContents=00000000
  timeout=00000000
erase error!
ACK0
    boot>

Does anyone have any ideas what might be wrong? or where to start
investigating in the code?

If people want to look at the code then it's on balloonboard.org in the svn
repository.

Colin

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