From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237] helo=passion.cambridge.redhat.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 15w1S2-0001UO-00 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 14:18:38 +0100 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <25D13BA49CC6D31193040040953309CE7FAB@MICSERV> References: <25D13BA49CC6D31193040040953309CE7FAB@MICSERV> To: Gareth Williams Cc: "'linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org'" Subject: Re: DOC LILO BIOS Identities. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 14:27:54 +0100 Message-ID: <15446.1003843674@redhat.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: gareth@microm-electronics.com said: > Okay - tell me about GRUB, I take it that it's similar to LILO in that > it's a boot manager? Yep. You can load it into the DiskOnChip in place of their normal firmware, so that the system BIOS runs Grub instead of trying to boot normally. Then there are patches to grub itself to make it drive the DiskOnChip. Those patches aren't 100% perfect yet, but they're fairly close. They're in CVS. -- dwmw2