DOC 2000 and GRUB (WORKING!!)

DOC 2000 and GRUB (WORKING!!)

[Mateo Anderson]

Jay

>well, I've met the same problem as you before. I have choosed not to
>include the --enable-diskonchip-biosnetboot since there's no option
>for me to use in my bios.

Exactly.

>later I redo the firmware with this option enabled, and I still have
>the problem, but I plug out the doc and boot the system from hd, when
>I saw the lilo option I plug in the doc and fdisk/format the doc, cp
>the software needed into doc. 

Well, this step I did a little different.
I put the DoC into the separate socket. On this socket I removed the
pin for the CS (chip select) and connected it to a switch. The other
end of the switch I put into the socket on the board.
Then I booted the system, and when the LILO appeared I turned the 
switch on, so the Linux found the DoC.

Here I would like to thank all the good people who helped me
and probably I could not do it without their help.
Thank you all!!!

One note.
They recommended me, that id use a DOS 5.x utility DFORMAT to
transfer the GRUB firmware to DoC. 
I must say, that DFORMAT could not transfer this to DoC, it
reported some errors.
But I could use the Linux, doc_loadbios to load the firmware
and then nftl_format to format the DoC.

Then the standard fdisk, mkfs, cp, ...

>now I can boot the doc alone without problem, but I can't get it work
>along with hd, when they met, usually the grub take the first to boot
>and hangs.
>
>I don't know why the problem exists, because I have another doc
>(someone else made it for me) which can work properly with the hd. 
>so there's no concern about the bios, it must be concerned with 
>the grub firmware I built. but what's wrong. yet it can work well
>alone.

I have the same problem.
If you find the solution, please post it to the mtd mailing list.
If I find it, I'll post it here.

Thank you once again and best regards,
Mateo

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Re: DOC 2000 and GRUB (WORKING!!)

[Henrik Nordstrom]

Mateo Anderson wrote:

> They recommended me, that id use a DOS 5.x utility DFORMAT to
> transfer the GRUB firmware to DoC.

Not yet.

What has been said is that DFORMAT 5.X should be used to transfer the GRUB 
firmware to the DoC, once GRUB understands about the slight difference in the 
NFTL format between the M-Sys 4.x and 5.x drivers/tools.

Regards
Henrik