Now Grub ??? was :RE: lilo and mtd ans doc

Patrick Allaire pallaire at gameloft.com
Thu Sep 6 09:31:39 EDT 2001


I have in this patch directory some Grub patch ? should I use Grub instead ?
or do I need both ?

Patrick Allaire
mailto:pallaire at gameloft.com
If you can see it, but it's not there, it's virtual. 
If you can't see it, but it is there, it's hidden. 
It you can't see it and it isn't there, it's gone.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Allaire 
> Sent: September 6, 2001 9:12 AM
> To: David Woodhouse; Patrick Allaire
> Cc: linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: RE: lilo and mtd ans doc 
> 
> 
> in the mtd cvs download --> /mtd/patches there is a 
> lilo-mtd.tar.gz ! inside this file there is a lilo-mtd 
> allready compiled and a lilo21-mtd-patch ... should I 
> recompile lilo our I should use the one that is there ? ... I 
> am currently using the precompiled one.
> 
> Patrick Allaire
> mailto:pallaire at gameloft.com
> If you can see it, but it's not there, it's virtual. 
> If you can't see it, but it is there, it's hidden. 
> It you can't see it and it isn't there, it's gone.
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Woodhouse [mailto:dwmw2 at infradead.org]
> > Sent: August 31, 2001 5:37 PM
> > To: Patrick Allaire
> > Cc: linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org
> > Subject: Re: lilo and mtd ans doc 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > pallaire at gameloft.com said:
> > > Kernel Panic : VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:05 
> > 
> > Er, that's /dev/hda5. It's not trying to mount the 
> DiskOnChip at all.
> > Try append="root=/dev/nftla1" instead of just root=/dev/nftla1
> > 
> > LILO sucks like that.
> > 
> > BTW, how many partitions do you have on the DiskOnChip? If 
> > only one, why 
> > are you wasting space on partitions rather than just using a 
> > filesystem on 
> > /dev/nftla ?
> > 
> > --
> > dwmw2
> > 
> > 
> 




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