Re: Maybe FAQ, but I don't know te answer...

Christer Weinigel
2001-02-12T08:08:35Z

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