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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "Bao C. Ha" <baoha@sensoria.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: DOC2000 support for a custom PPC750 board
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 22:54:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <31265.1005000853@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <007c01c1662c$3e1767c0$456c020a@SENSORIA>

baoha@sensoria.com said:
>  Can the firmware boot into LILO directly?  Or it requires the patched
> lilo-mtd in the patches subdirectory?

> I have been under the impression that you need lilo-mtd to boot the
> DiskOnChip.  However, the lilo-mtd patch is dated March of 2000. 

I've never used the patched LILO, but I believe the only changes are that 
it recognises the 'root=/dev/nftla' device and sets the device number 
accordingly, and that it can deal with the fact that the M-Systems BIOS 
extension has eaten a huge chunk of sub-640K RAM. The latter may no longer 
be required with a newer LILO anyway, and the former can be worked around 
by using 'append="root=/dev/nftla"' instead of just 'root=', just as with 
other device names that LILO doesn't know about.


--
dwmw2

      reply	other threads:[~2001-11-05 22:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-05  9:18 DOC2000 support for a custom PPC750 board Boris Bulkin
2001-11-05  9:36 ` David Woodhouse
2001-11-05 10:53   ` Boris Bulkin
2001-11-05 11:20     ` David Woodhouse
2001-11-05 19:01   ` Bao C. Ha
2001-11-05 22:54     ` David Woodhouse [this message]

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