R: mtd on linux

Manatee manatee at pacifier.com
Sat Apr 14 02:20:39 EDT 2001


On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Alessandro Staltari wrote:

> It seems original DOC firmware interfere with lilo. M-sys provides an
> alternate DOC firmware to allow linux boot from hard drive but I prefer
> booting from a floppy by copying the kernel image to it (cp zImage
> /dev/fd0).
>
> I hope this helps

Yes, thank you.

So you are saying that all I have to do is boot my Linux kernel from a
floppy and then I can talk to my disk on chip?

So once I have booted up, using a floppy, then how do I access the disk
on chip? Do I mount it, then cd to it, and then do a 'ls' to see what is
there, etc.?

Manatee



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