Re: Booting from DOC2000 with GRUB loader

Russ Dill
2002-04-26T02:35:48Z

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.