From: Glen <mtd@empireenterprises.com>
To: Ilguiz Latypov <ilatypov@superbt.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: boot from diskonchip millenium
Date: 06 Aug 2002 13:54:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1028656482.16600.20.camel@glen> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208060003210.7633-100000@server.superbt.com>
Ok.
When the machine boots up, several lines scroll by...unfortunately too
fast for me to see.
Then, about 50 lines scroll that say:
Attempting to open /boot/grub/menu.lst 0x0 0x0
Attempting to open /boot/grub/menu.lst 0x0 0x1
Attempting to open /boot/grub/menu.lst 0x0 0x2
...and so on...
I then get a grub> prompt
"grub> geometry" reports:
Error 11: Unrecognized device string
"grub> root" reports:
(dc0): Filesystem type unknown, using whole disk
I am using nftl_format to prepare the DOC (I don't even know what jffs2
is at this point).
The command used was nftl_format /dev/mtd/0 98304
After the nftl_format, I fdisk, format the partition, mount it, and copy
the kernel and grub conf.
I've tried using both ext2 and vfat filesystems, with the same results.
/boot/grub/menu.lst (on the DOC) is as follows:
default 0
timeout 5
title DOC Linux
kernel (dc0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 root=/dev/nftl/disc0/part1
I've also tried:
default 0
timeout 5
title DOC Linux
kernel (dc0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 root=/dev/nftla1
and:
default 0
timeout 5
title DOC Linux
kernel (dc0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 root=/dev/nftl/disc0/part1
Ideas??
-g
On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 00:15, Ilguiz Latypov wrote:
>
> On 5 Aug 2002, Glen wrote:
>
> > Now the bios recognizes and runs the boot loader, but it can't seem to
> > read my diskonchip filesystem.
>
> Great, now on to the next step: what are the informational and error
> messages? Have you set up an NFTL layer on the chip? Perhaps, you are
> trying to install JFFS2 not NFTL? Can you mount a flash filesystem when
> booted from hard disk? What is the content of your menu.lst file?
>
> > I've been loosely following the directions at:
> > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2001-October/003475.html
>
> There is a newer instruction at
>
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2002-June/005240.html
>
> > What's the difference between the grub_firmware generated by grub and
> > grub_firmware generated by mtd?
>
> I believe the original patch to GRUB worked only with DoC 2000.
>
> Ilguiz
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-06 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-05 16:48 boot from diskonchip millenium Glen
2002-08-05 17:26 ` Ilguiz Latypov
2002-08-05 23:20 ` Glen
2002-08-06 4:15 ` Ilguiz Latypov
2002-08-06 17:54 ` Glen [this message]
2002-08-06 18:04 ` Ilguiz Latypov
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