Problem booting from DiskOnChip 2000

[Thorsten Reimers]

Hi all,

I have a board with a DiskOnChip 200 module from M-System. I have been able, to 
start the driver as a module and partitioning and fromatting the chip. I am 
struggling to boot from it, does anybody have an idea?

Find below the messages from my Bios and from Linux during boot (from floppy).

BIOS Messages
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DOC Socket Services - Version 0.2
(C) Copyright 1992-1996, M-Systems Ltd.

TrueFFF-BIOS -- Version 3.3.9 for DiskOnChip 2000 (V4.3)
Copryright (C) M-Systems, 1992-2001

Linux Boot Messages
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Using /opt/files/lib/modules/2.4.23/kernel/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.o
Using /opt/files/lib/modules/2.4.23/kernel/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_ids.o
Using /opt/files/lib/modules/2.4.23/kernel/drivers/mtd/devices/docecc.o
Using /opt/files/lib/modules/2.4.23/kernel/drivers/mtd/devices/doc2000.o
Using /opt/files/lib/modules/2.4.23/kernel/drivers/mtd/mtd_bkl_devs.o
DiskOnChip 2000 found at address 0xD8000
Flash chip foind: Manufacturer ID: 98, Chip ID: E6 (Toshiba: NAND 8MiB 3,3V)
3 flash chips found. Total DiskOnChip size: 24 MiB
Ignoring DiskOnChip 2000 at 0xDA000 - already configured
Ignoring DiskOnChip 2000 at 0xDC000 - already configured
Ignoring DiskOnChip 2000 at 0xDE000 - already configured
Using /opt/files/lib/modules/2.4.23/kernel/drivers/devices/docprobe.o
NFTL driver: nftlcore.c $Revision: 1.94 $, nftlmount.c $Revision: 1.34 $
NFTL: UnitSizeFactor 0x00 detected. This violates the spec but we think we know 
what it means ...

During boot it stop's after sending out only some characters from linux load:
SYSLINUX 1.76 0x3d93445f

Maybe I should clean the chip by a tool, maybe I should install a new
firmware on the chip? I tried it together with a hard disk with Windows and the
disk-on-chip tools from MSystem. This worked really fine so I decided to
install Linux now.

And, last but not least: Dave Woodhouse, I would like to apologize for sending 
out an email to you (which you did answer nevertheless). I just discovered this 
mailing list and how to get help.

Thorsten

Wer krank wird, erfährt als erstes, dass er selber Schuld hat. - Eugen Drewermann