Booting from DOC2000 with GRUB loader

Russ Dill Russ.Dill at asu.edu
Thu Apr 25 22:35:50 EDT 2002


On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 19:19, Zhiwei Yu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am working on booting from DOC2000, LILO works on my
> box but GRUB doesn't.  After I patched the latest
> patch for GRUB, I got grub-fireware and sucessfully
> load the fireware in DOC.
> 
> For now, everytime I boot up, I got grub prompt, but I
> failed to load kernel, the command I using is 
> kernel (dc0,0)/boot/bzImage.
> 
> This problem is not new to the list, I found several
> similar mails, All of them didn't have the answer.  DI
> u have any idea?  Thanks in advance.

probably because you overwrote some nftl stuff with grub. Erase the
whole thing (eraseall /dev/mtd0), put grub on it, find the next free
block directly past grub and nftl_format at that offset. fdisk your
nftla, mkfs the partition, add the kernel, and maybe a menu.lst.





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