From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from post2.inre.asu.edu ([129.219.110.73]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 170vaO-0000PJ-00 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2002 03:35:48 +0100 Received: from conversion.post2.inre.asu.edu by asu.edu (PMDF V6.1 #40111) id <0GV500101LVLA6@asu.edu> for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 19:35:45 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 19:35:50 -0700 From: Russ Dill Subject: Re: Booting from DOC2000 with GRUB loader In-reply-to: <20020426021938.12025.qmail@web20407.mail.yahoo.com> To: Zhiwei Yu Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Message-id: <1019788550.17348.9.camel@russ> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <20020426021938.12025.qmail@web20407.mail.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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.