From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from majordomo by infradead.org with local (Exim 3.20 #2) id 14SE2F-0000V9-00 for mtd-list@infradead.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 08:08:35 +0000 From: Christer Weinigel To: dwmw2@infradead.org Subject: Re: Maybe FAQ, but I don't know te answer... Cc: mtd@infradead.org In-Reply-To: <15502.981449891@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20010212080547.94DD9F5B@acolyte.hack.org> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 09:05:47 +0100 (CET) Sender: owner-mtd@infradead.org List-ID: dwmw2@infradead.org wrote: >You can leave the original firmware in place, which makes it pretend to be >a BIOS-supported hard drive. So you can use any bootloader, although some >versions of LILO have problems with the amount of memory that the firmware >eats. We can also load Grub into the DiskOnChip in place of the original >firmware, and we've done about 90% of the work required to make grub >capable of loading a kernel from the DiskOnChip - just needs a few bugs >fixed. Whre can I find that version of Grub? I'm just playing around a bit with a DiskOnChip module right now, and I hacked the stage1 loader from the mtd/grub directory so that it can load etherboot and then added a some very primitive DOC support to etherboot (it was available and has a framework for serial consoles which works). So now I load etherboot from the DOC and then scan the DOC for a tag which identifies an etherboot nbi image and loads that. If anyone is interested, I can probably clean up the sources a bit and put it up on a website somewhere. /Christer To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe mtd" to majordomo@infradead.org