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From: Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@asu.edu>
To: Zhiwei Yu <linux_vpn@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Booting from DOC2000 with GRUB loader
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 19:35:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1019788550.17348.9.camel@russ> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020426021938.12025.qmail@web20407.mail.yahoo.com>

On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 19:19, Zhiwei Yu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am working on booting from DOC2000, LILO works on my
> box but GRUB doesn't.  After I patched the latest
> patch for GRUB, I got grub-fireware and sucessfully
> load the fireware in DOC.
> 
> For now, everytime I boot up, I got grub prompt, but I
> failed to load kernel, the command I using is 
> kernel (dc0,0)/boot/bzImage.
> 
> This problem is not new to the list, I found several
> similar mails, All of them didn't have the answer.  DI
> u have any idea?  Thanks in advance.

probably because you overwrote some nftl stuff with grub. Erase the
whole thing (eraseall /dev/mtd0), put grub on it, find the next free
block directly past grub and nftl_format at that offset. fdisk your
nftla, mkfs the partition, add the kernel, and maybe a menu.lst.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-26  2:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-26  2:19 Booting from DOC2000 with GRUB loader Zhiwei Yu
2002-04-26  2:35 ` Russ Dill [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-01 19:17 John Sutton
2002-05-01 19:49 ` Ilguiz Latypov
2002-05-01 19:49 ` Nikhil Goel
2002-05-01 20:15 ` Russ Dill
2002-05-02  7:47 ` John Sutton
2002-05-02  9:32   ` Russ Dill
2002-05-02 10:56     ` John Sutton
2002-05-02 16:09       ` Ilguiz Latypov
2002-05-02 17:33         ` Jasmine Strong
2002-05-02 17:39       ` Jasmine Strong
2002-05-02 18:17         ` Frederick Lefebvre
2002-05-02 18:45           ` Ilguiz Latypov
2002-05-03 13:40     ` John Sutton
2002-05-03 16:19       ` Jasmine Strong

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