Re: GRUB on DoC Millenium

Re: GRUB on DoC Millenium

[Mark Meade]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Dzuy Nguyen wrote: 

> Has anyone got it working.  If so, please help.

I have an 8MB DoC Milennium that will boot using GRUB - for now, it's on a PC 
in the M-Sys ISA Card.  I've also had it booting on a small 386-based 
embedded board.

As Ilguiz pointed out, you probably need the "-diskonchip-biosnetboot" 
option.  If that doesn't work for you, I'd be glad to write up the procedure 
I used to get this working.   Let me know.

Regards,

Mark

GRUB on DoC Millenium

[Dzuy Nguyen]

What is the status on GRUB and DoC Millenium?  I've read the posts in 
the archive but it seems that people
have had mixed results with using GRUB to boot DoC Millenium.

I have 8MB a DoC Millenium.  I've got mtd-snapshot-22020529 from CVS, 
I've tried with grub 0.90, 0.91,
and 0.92 (with proper patches) and the board acts as if the DoC is not 
even there.  I dformat it to verify and
it works OK.  Here's what I did:

1. patch grub.
2. aclocal, automake, autoconf.
3. configure with --enable-diskonchip for grub0.90.  For grub0.91 and 
grub 0.92, I've tried each
--enable-diskonchip-2000, --enable-diskonchip-mil512, 
--enable-diskonchip-mil256.
4. cp stage2/pre_stage2 mtd/grub and make (for grub0.90), cp 
stage1/grub_firmware mtd/grub for 0.91/2.
5. doc_loadbios.
6. nftl_format with offset 98304 doesn't work.  With grub 0.91 and 0.92, 
I notice grub_firmware gets larger
so I compensate by adding 8192 bytes to the grub_firmware size.
7. fdisk, mke2fs, etc.
8. Reboot and never see the grub.

Has anyone got it working.  If so, please help.

Re: GRUB on DoC Millenium

[Ilguiz Latypov]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Dzuy Nguyen wrote:

> 8. Reboot and never see the grub.

No messages other than BIOS initialization ones?

Have you tried the --enable-diskonchip-biosnetboot option?  This will hook 
the RAM copy of stage 1 bootloader to INT 18h which is the network boot 
handler.  The BIOS should be configured to boot off the network first.

Ilguiz