Booting from DOC-Millenium
Hi
I'm using a DOC-Millenium( w/ 8megs) on a PC104-modul, holding the rootfs and applications. First of all I was using the driver from m-systems (binary only!) which caused me a headache since it's using up a lot of system performance and - even worse - it interferes with the serial port i a manner that I'm loosing data from the serial port. The next attempt was trying the (open source-) nftl-driver. Basically this was very successful and also solved the problem with the serial port. The only remaining problem is that I can't boot from the DOC anymore. I'm using doc-lilo as bootloader. I appreciate any advice.
Regards
Felix
Quoted 2 lines · [email protected] said:
The only remaining problem is that I can't boot from the DOC
anymore. I'm using doc-lilo as bootloader. I appreciate any advice.
What happens? Does the built-in BIOS not detect the DiskOnChip any more? I think the Grub code to drive the DiskOnChip directly, without even using the M-Systems' BIOS extension, is now ready for people to use it - you could try that.
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dwmw2
There is no Millenium-specific use of ReadPipeInit and LastDataRead registers in the DOC patch to stage2 of Grub-0.90. Only slow reads and writes through CDSN Slow I/O register are implemented.
Ilguiz
Quoted 3 lines · David Woodhouse
I think the Grub code to drive the DiskOnChip directly, without even using the M-Systems' BIOS extension, is now ready for people to use it
- you could try that.
Quoted 3 lines · [email protected] said:
There is no Millenium-specific use of ReadPipeInit and LastDataRead
registers in the DOC patch to stage2 of Grub-0.90. Only slow reads and writes through CDSN Slow I/O register are implemented.
Eep, sorry - I'd forgotten that Grub was DOC2000-only. Shouldn't be too hard to fix though, if anyone cares enough.
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dwmw2