From: Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@asu.edu>
To: John Sutton <john@scl.co.uk>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Booting from DOC2000 with GRUB loader
Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 13:15:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1020284137.873.2359.camel@russ> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <02050120383503.07252@diva.localdomain>
> or nftl_format /dev/mtd0 98304 (bytes)
this one is correct
> I'm nervous about messing this up because since I put grub on the DoC, the
> machine only ever boots from the DoC - completely ignores floppy, scsi disks
> and cdrom. So if I screw up this nftl_format and trash grub, I'm going to end
> up with an unbootable system ;-( (OK, I'll just have to pull the DoC chip out
> of the board *again*, but even this gives me the eebies, so tight is the damn
> thing stuck in its socket! And anyway, if the system is unbootable with the
> DoC chip in there, how am I ever going to reprogram it?)
>
> Help much appreciated!
*** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING ***
THIS CAN DAMAGE YOUR HARDWARE AND BLOW YOU UP
(but it seems to work for me)
*** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING ***
I have an ISA card for the DOC2000, I boot up my workstation, carefully
plug in the isacard, modprobe doc2000, insmod docprobe insmod mtdchar
(if necessary) insmod nftl (if necessary). Do whatever I need to do,
rmmod nftl, rmmod docprobe, rmmod doc2000, and remove the card. On my
machine, doing this using the devfsd nodes causes an oops after the
first time, a simple workaround is using hand made device files.
*** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING ***
THIS CAN DAMAGE YOUR HARDWARE AND BLOW YOU UP
(but it seems to work for me)
*** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING ***
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-01 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-01 19:17 Booting from DOC2000 with GRUB loader John Sutton
2002-05-01 19:49 ` Ilguiz Latypov
2002-05-01 19:49 ` Nikhil Goel
2002-05-01 20:15 ` Russ Dill [this message]
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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-26 2:19 Zhiwei Yu
2002-04-26 2:35 ` Russ Dill
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