Is this normal?

Is this normal?

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello from Gregg C Levine
As the subject says, "Is this normal?". I have a DOC-2000, installed
on an ISA based carrier board. I have also replaced its flakey M-SYS
firmware with the GRUB based one.
Since I have Lilo installed on the drive, as well as a currently
inactive grub, I half expected to see the Lilo multiple kernel boot
prompt. Instead I saw the grub menu that I have placed there. As it
happens I do not have an image placed on the DOC-2000.
Also, when I re-installed the card after removing it, it did the same
thing, and this filesystem is newer then the firmware. (An engineering
casualty occurred, and I needed to reinstall Linux on the drive.)

Now the question remains: Any suggestions, again, for constructing
that image to place on the DOC-2000? And how would I tell the computer
to boot it, or the resident hard drive?
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Re: Is this normal?

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 04:23, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> so replaced its flakey M-SYS firmware with the GRUB based one.
> Since I have Lilo installed on the drive, as well as a currently
> inactive grub, I half expected to see the Lilo multiple kernel boot
> prompt. Instead I saw the grub menu that I have placed there.

That is indeed normal. Since you removed the M-Systems firmware, there's
nothing to make the DiskOnChip appear as a 'normal' hard drive via the
BIOS 'normal' INT 13h disc access routines. So LILO cannot possibly
work.

> Now the question remains: Any suggestions, again, for constructing
> that image to place on the DOC-2000? And how would I tell the computer
> to boot it, or the resident hard drive?

You are, as ever, very difficult to comprehend. What image to place on
the DOC2000? Format it (with the Grub firmware) with DFORMAT, or with
nftl_format if you must, make an ext2 file system on /dev/nftl, and have
Grub's boot menu boot from the ext2 file system.... what are you
missing?

-- 
dwmw2

RE: Is this normal?

[Gregg C Levine]

(See Below!)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-mtd-bounces@lists.infradead.org [mailto:linux-mtd-
> bounces@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of David Woodhouse
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 4:15 AM
> To: Gregg C Levine
> Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: Is this normal?
> 
> On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 04:23, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> > so replaced its flakey M-SYS firmware with the GRUB based one.
> > Since I have Lilo installed on the drive, as well as a currently
> > inactive grub, I half expected to see the Lilo multiple kernel
boot
> > prompt. Instead I saw the grub menu that I have placed there.
> 
> That is indeed normal. Since you removed the M-Systems firmware,
there's
> nothing to make the DiskOnChip appear as a 'normal' hard drive via
the
> BIOS 'normal' INT 13h disc access routines. So LILO cannot possibly
> work.
> 
> > Now the question remains: Any suggestions, again, for constructing
> > that image to place on the DOC-2000? And how would I tell the
computer
> > to boot it, or the resident hard drive?
> 
> You are, as ever, very difficult to comprehend. What image to place
on
> the DOC2000? Format it (with the Grub firmware) with DFORMAT, or
with
> nftl_format if you must, make an ext2 file system on /dev/nftl, and
have
> Grub's boot menu boot from the ext2 file system.... what are you
> missing?
> 
> --
> dwmw2

Hello from Gregg C Levine
Basically yes. When I wrote the message that you're confused about it
was very early in the morning here, and at that time I don't even
pretend to make myself clear to others. I apologize. 
How do I go about formatting it with the Grub firmware in place?   And
since I am leaning towards formatting it with an ext2 file system, how
do I go about attaching it to the device name you chose. And then have
it come up on the Grub's boot menu boot from the ext2 file system. 
Yes, that's what I was missing. 
Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net
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