From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from majordomo by infradead.org with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13HXbZ-0005GY-00 for mtd-list@infradead.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 21:16:37 +0100 Received: from mail.root.at ([212.172.120.146] ident=root) by infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13HXbX-0005GS-00 for mtd@infradead.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 21:16:35 +0100 Message-ID: <397F46EF.417AD6CE@linuxaustria.at> From: Karl Pitrich MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christian Lademann CC: mtd@infradead.org Subject: Re: Request: examples of using LILO or GRUB to boot from DOC References: <397F3B15.D420B9AF@zls.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 22:18:00 +0200 Sender: owner-mtd@infradead.org List-ID: Christian Lademann wrote: > = > I am trying hard to get a 4Mb DoC to boot something else but MS-DOS. > Could somebody please mail me her/his lilo- > or grub-configuration? > Is there currently a working way to boot Linux from a DOC using free > software, anyhow? lilo works, use the patched one from the mtd package. for a stable system it is recomended to use the DoC driver provided by m-system, i guess. Installation goes like this: - mount the DoC to /mnt/doc. - put a kernel with according driver in /mnt/doc/boot/, name it kernel; - copy the boot.b from the mtd package to /mnt/doc/boot/ - change the rootdevice of the kernel with 'rdev /dev/fla1 /mnt/doc/boot/kernel' - Generate /root/lilo-doc.conf similar to the following: boot=3D/dev/fla vga =3D normal = read-only prompt timeout=3D50 image =3D /mnt/doc/boot/kernel root =3D /dev/fla1 label =3D linux - install lilo with lilo-mtd -C /root/lilo-doc.conf -I /mnt/doc/boot/boot.b -m /mnt/doc/boot/map -reboot Note: dunno about a small DoC, but on a 16mb you will need a extra boot partition with ie. 1MB, because otherwise lilo will see too much cylinders (>1024) and therefore can't be installed. if you do this, surely change /dev/fla1 to /dev/fla2, because /dev/fla1 just holds the kernel. -- = Best regards, Karl Pitrich. icq #81091001 pitrich information technologies linuxsoftwareinternetworkcommunication! hauptstra=DFe 16-18 | 4040 linz | austria = voice: +43 70 718884 | support: 0900 970 710 (.at only) -- Microsoft is prohibited from distributing this work in any form, in whole or in part, across any medium. Licenses for distribution are = available to Microsoft for $500. Posting without permission constitutes an agreement to these terms. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe mtd" to majordomo@infradead.org