Re: Trying to boot linux off a 2MiB M-Sys DoC2000 chip

[Gonzalo Servat <gonzalo@linuxaus.com>]

On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 00:49, Ilguiz Latypov wrote:
> 
> On 22 Jun 2002, Gonzalo Servat wrote:
> 
> > My question is, how do I configure grub to know how to boot off the DoC?
> > I can get it to boot off an IDE HDD (root hd(0,0); kernel /boot/bzImage;
> > boot) but how would grub know how to access the DoC's kernel?
> 
> Try
> 
>   root (dc0)
>   kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/nftla ro
> 
> for a filesystem on top of /dev/nftla or
> 
>   root (dc0,0)
>   kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/ntla1
> 
> for one on top of /dev/nftla1.  The first line may point to a different 
> partition that would hold the kernel image.  Such separation allows to 
> let GRUB boot a kernel off an ext2 partition.  The kernel in turn can 
> mount another ext3 partition under "/".  GRUB is not aware of ext3.

Hi Ilguiz. Thanks for your reply.

I tried this and Grub doesn't like "dc0". It says "Error 23: Error while
parsing number" .. I tried doing tab completion after the 'dc' but it
kept giving me the same error.

The DiskOnChip is on /dev/mtd0 and my first partition is /dev/nftla1
(ext2)

I configured /boot/grub/{menu.lst,grub.conf} on the DOC but since Grub
doesn't seem to be able to read the DOC, it can't read the menu.lst.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Regards,
Gonzalo

> 
> Ilguiz
> 
>