Request: examples of using LILO or GRUB to boot from DOC

Request: examples of using LILO or GRUB to boot from DOC

[Christian Lademann]

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?

cu, Christian.

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Re: Request: examples of using LILO or GRUB to boot from DOC

[Karl Pitrich]

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=/dev/fla
	vga = normal  
	read-only
	prompt
	timeout=50
	image = /mnt/doc/boot/kernel
	root = /dev/fla1
	label = 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.



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Re: Request: examples of using LILO or GRUB to boot from DOC

[Dvir Oren]

Karl Pitrich writes ("Re: Request: examples of using LILO or GRUB to boot from DOC"):

> - Generate /root/lilo-doc.conf similar to the following:
> 
> 	boot=/dev/fla
> 	vga = normal  
> 	read-only
> 	prompt
> 	timeout=50
> 	image = /mnt/doc/boot/kernel
> 	root = /dev/fla1
> 	label = linux

You might also want to add a boot = /mnt/doc/boot/boot, and map =
/mnt/doc/boot/map instead of passing them in the command line.

One important thing to remember is that you MUST pass these parameters 
from the mounted flash, and not from copies in your hard disk,
otherwise LILO won't work.

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Re: Request: examples of using LILO or GRUB to boot from DOC

[Christian Lademann]

Thank you for your helping hand. It worked with the "DOC123.EXB"-firmware

installed and the /dev/nftla1 being the FAT12-fs created by dformat.

Repartitioning the nftla worked as well but no success booting anymore.

Using the M-Systems-driver, /dev/fla* and plilo repartitioning and

booting works well.

cu, Christian.

PS: where do I find a 'as86' that is able to compile lilo? The current

bin86-release found on metalab.unc.edu does not do the job.

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