Grub Booting Disk On Chip

[Bob Chiodini]

I'm having a problem configuring grub to boot from a DOC2000.

What's been done so far:

I've patched grub-0.92 with the grub-2002-02-19-doc.patch.  Installed
the grub_firmware on the DOC, formated and partitioned /dev/nftla1 and
have successfully mounted it.  I reserved 100000 bytes for the
grub_firmware.  The /boot/grub directory exists on the DOC with the
following menu.lst (a soft link to grub.conf):

default=1
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-10)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda2
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18emb)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18emb ro root=/dev/hda2
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18emb from DOC)
        root (dc0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18emb ro root=/dev/hda2

What doesn't work:

When I boot the board:

1.  I get "DoC 2000 at D600".  The DOC is really at D000.

2.  I get several messages about GRUB trying to find
/boot/grub/menu.lst.  None of the messages indicate drive 0xE0.

Eventually I get a grub prompt and can enter:

root (dc0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18emb ro root=/dev/hda2

Both commands respond appropriately (I think).  I can then type boot and
all is well.

What am I missing to get grub to automatically boot from the DOC?

Bob...


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Bob Chiodini
Sr. Communications Engineer
Dynacs Engineering Company, Inc.
DNX-18
Kennedy Space Center, Florida 32899
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