RE: DOC LILO BIOS Identities.

RE: DOC LILO BIOS Identities.

[Gareth Williams]

Okay - tell me about GRUB, I take it that it's similar to LILO in that it's
a boot manager?

Gareth.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	David Woodhouse [SMTP:dwmw2@infradead.org]
> Sent:	23 October 2001 13:56
> To:	Gareth Williams
> Cc:	'linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org'
> Subject:	Re: DOC LILO BIOS Identities. 
> 
> 
> gareth@microm-electronics.com said:
> > How does one discover what the BIOS disk identities will be for the
> > disk on chip? E.g. 0x80 or 0x83 etc...
> 
> > I am trying to use LILO and it is getting confused!!
> 
> Just the same as for mixed SCSI/IDE drives - you don't, you just guess. 
> 
> Wanna get Grub finished?
> 
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Re: DOC LILO BIOS Identities.

[David Woodhouse]

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. 

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pcmcia sram card

[somshekar kadam]

 hi ,
  is pcmcia sram card supported 
what configuration i should use in pcmcia and any
other thing to use sram card
can i create file system on it 
thanks in advance
som



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Re: pcmcia sram card

[David Woodhouse]

kadamsom@yahoo.co.in said:
>   is pcmcia sram card supported  what configuration i should use in
> pcmcia and any other thing to use sram card can i create file system
> on it 

PCMCIA cards are not supported by the MTD code, although they are supported 
by the PCMCIA code. This is simply because nobody's contributed a map driver
to make them work with the MTD code yet, and every time I look at the 
PCMCIA code my head hurts and I get distracted into working on my pending 
rewrite of it.

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dwmw2

DOC LILO BIOS Identities.

[Gareth Williams]

How does one discover what the BIOS disk identities will be for the disk on
chip?
E.g. 0x80 or 0x83 etc...

I am trying to use LILO and it is getting confused!!

Gareth.

Re: DOC LILO BIOS Identities.

[kira brown]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Gareth Williams wrote:

> I am trying to use LILO and it is getting confused!!

That's because LILO doesn't work properly with DoC.  Use grub instead.

kira.

Re: DOC LILO BIOS Identities.

[David Woodhouse]

gareth@microm-electronics.com said:
> How does one discover what the BIOS disk identities will be for the
> disk on chip? E.g. 0x80 or 0x83 etc...

> I am trying to use LILO and it is getting confused!!

Just the same as for mixed SCSI/IDE drives - you don't, you just guess. 

Wanna get Grub finished?

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dwmw2