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RoddyMac:
Thanks for the link to Nick Gammons tutorial.
I had two ATMEGA328-PU's that I could not get to take a bootloader until I walked through his awesome, complete, simple, thorough instructions. A simple change to his sketch, (I duplicated his signature for the ATMEGA328P-PU and changed the chip name and the last byte of the sig to 14 to match my chip) and all worked perfectly! I had been stumbling around the web for days trying different methods with no success, then TADA!
Thanks again,
RoddyYeah, it is pretty slick. Not that it is a big issue, but it seems that chips bootloaded with Gammon's sketch don't talk to AVRDUDE after bootloading. I have that on my list.
Have fun!
That doesn't sound very logical. The Arduino IDE uses AVRDUDE to perform uploads so if the bootloader won't talk to AVRDUDE after installing in the chip then it would not be a functional bootloader at all, which would indeed be a big issue?