From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from majordomo by infradead.org with local (Exim 3.20 #2) id 14OpTx-0004Zv-00 for mtd-list@infradead.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2001 23:19:09 +0000 Message-ID: <000b01c08d6e$814eadb0$5211f2c3@drakanworkst> From: "Andrey Glazunov" To: "David Woodhouse" Cc: References: <000b01c08cad$4ee427e0$4f11f2c3@drakanworkst> <001701c08be1$0c1be0f0$8412f2c3@drakanworkst> <1464.981027321@redhat.com> <18230.981110002@redhat.com> Subject: Re: lrp booting from M-Systems ISA flash card Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 02:18:50 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-mtd@infradead.org List-ID: > > 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. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe mtd" to majordomo@infradead.org