From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237] helo=passion.cambridge.redhat.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 160sU9-0006rb-00 for ; Mon, 05 Nov 2001 22:44:53 +0000 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <007c01c1662c$3e1767c0$456c020a@SENSORIA> References: <007c01c1662c$3e1767c0$456c020a@SENSORIA> To: "Bao C. Ha" Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: DOC2000 support for a custom PPC750 board Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 22:54:13 +0000 Message-ID: <31265.1005000853@redhat.com> Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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