boot from diskonchip millenium

Ilguiz Latypov ilatypov at superbt.com
Tue Aug 6 00:15:06 EDT 2002


On 5 Aug 2002, Glen wrote:

> Now the bios recognizes and runs the boot loader, but it can't seem to
> read my diskonchip filesystem.  

Great, now on to the next step: what are the informational and error
messages?  Have you set up an NFTL layer on the chip?  Perhaps, you are
trying to install JFFS2 not NFTL?  Can you mount a flash filesystem when
booted from hard disk?  What is the content of your menu.lst file?

> I've been loosely following the directions at:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2001-October/003475.html

There is a newer instruction at

   http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2002-June/005240.html

> What's the difference between the grub_firmware generated by grub and
> grub_firmware generated by mtd?  

I believe the original patch to GRUB worked only with DoC 2000.

Ilguiz





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