Re: DoC grub_firmware (newbie..)

[Ilguiz Latypov]

David,

I was able to test the grub_firmware file produced by the patch on a 64M
DoC 2000.  Yes, I could get to the GRUB prompt and play with "root (dc0,"
command.  GRUB can access the configuration file and the kernel image
stored in ext2 partition.  The partition was created on top of NFTL block
device layer.

Mark Meade has offered few improvements to the patch.  I think there are 2 
latest changes that may be of interest to you:

   a) New configuration option --enable-diskonchip-biosnetboot will make 
      GRUB firmware to attach itself to INT 18h (BIOS network boot) rather 
      than to INT 19h (BIOS bootstrap loader).  If you try that option, 
      enable network boot in BIOS as well.

   b) The DoC SlowIO register is no longer read when fetching the data 
      from the flash memory.

I updated the patch.  It is available at
    
http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=164&group_id=68

Thanks for your time.

Ilguiz

On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, David Updegraff wrote:

> On reboot I get "Jumping to Grub".  Thats it. No grub> prompt. Keyboard
> dead.