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booting DOC2000 with jffs2 as root

DISCUSSION Martin Chan 1 participant 1 message Dec 22, 2003 Memory technology devices (MTD)

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Hi,

I can copy a root.jffs2 image to DiskOnChip2000 and mount it. I can't install the boot loader using patched lilo-mtd in mtd-snapshot. This is my lilo.conf

default=linux
linear
bios=0x80
vga=Extended
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/mtdblock0

When running lilo-mtd -r /mnt -v -v -v
It gives the following errors:

Reading boot sector from current root
Caching devices /dev/mtdblock0 (0x1f00) mtdblock_open
mtdblock: read on "DiskOnChip 2000" ar 0x0, size 0x200
mtdblock: read on "DiskOnChip 2000" ar 0x200, size 0x200
mtdblock: read on "DiskOnChip 2000" ar 0x400, size 0x200
mtdblock: read on "DiskOnChip 2000" ar 0x600, size 0x200
mtdblock: read on "DiskOnChip 2000" ar 0x800, size 0x200
mtdblock: read on "DiskOnChip 2000" ar 0xa00, size 0x200
mtdblock: read on "DiskOnChip 2000" ar 0xc00, size 0x200
mtdblock: read on "DiskOnChip 2000" ar 0xe00, size 0x200 Merging with /boot/boot.b
mtdblock_open
Sorry, don't know hw to handle device 0x1f00 mtdblock_release
ok
mtdblock_release
ok

What can I do? Does the lilo-mtd support /dev/mtdblock[n] or it just support nftla?

Thanks,
Martin Chan