From: "Andrey Glazunov" <lhfrjgtn@peterlink.ru>
To: "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: <mtd@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: lrp booting from M-Systems ISA flash card
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 02:18:50 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000b01c08d6e$814eadb0$5211f2c3@drakanworkst> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 18230.981110002@redhat.com
>
> lhfrjgtn@peterlink.ru said:
> > i told about my experiment - i boot from 1.44floppy with this ISA
> > card inserted to check if any conflicts with BIOS extensions and any
> > linux code - system boots OK ... is it good experiment ?
>
> Er... yes, that's a good experiment. Sorry, I'd missed that. The
low-memory
> explanation doesn't really hold then. Can you boot from a floppy and load
> the kernel from the flash card?
>
hm... how can i do it ? something like boot=/dev/hda1 in syslinux.cfg at
floppy ? as i see linux software do not understand this 'device' as /hda1
...
and as for booting from flash - system loads root.lrp well and hangs at time
of 'loading linux..' so it seems like some critical errors in kernel (if i
understand it right) when it try to acsess boot device during its
initialising (loading)... it seems only kernel patches can help...
>
> lhfrjgtn@peterlink.ru said:
> > what is 'bitrot' ?
>
> The process whereby old code which hasn't been touched for a long time
just
> seems to stop working.
hmm... i will try to understand it but i am too poor in linux yet :(
>
> > and where can i found doc1000.c ?
>
> In the Linux 2.4 kernel: linux/drivers/mtd/doc1000.c. Or from my CVS tree
> if you want to patch it into 2.2.
>
i better try to work with 2.2 kernels as stable releases (IMHO)... all i
want to do is to build small PPTP server with 1 network card to 'mirror'
game traffic in the internet (now it work on WinNT4 but i want it to be
linux without 500Mb HDD and 64Mb RAM) ... so i will better look into
patches... unfortunately i want to boot all system from flash card without
floppy or hdd... in other case there is no advantages of flash...
Andrey.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-02 23:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-31 23:53 lrp booting from M-Systems ISA flash card Andrey Glazunov
2001-02-01 11:35 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-02 0:15 ` Andrey Glazunov
2001-02-02 10:33 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-02 23:18 ` Andrey Glazunov [this message]
2001-02-09 1:23 ` Andrey Glazunov
2001-02-09 1:29 ` David Woodhouse
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