Patrick, I do believe it has IDE support in the kernal. However, I don't
use it. It kinda defeats the purpose of having DiskOnChip.
John
Patrick Nixon
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Subject: RE: [Leaf-user] LRP and DOC
01/28/02 09:19
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John,
Does your Kernel have IDE/CDRom support in it, or is it just a
modified floppy kernel?
--Pat
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Patrick Nixon wrote:
> John,
> Let me be the first to congratulate you on a fine procedure and
> excellent work in doing this! I now have my websurfer proo running
> without a hard drive! Next project will be PCMCIA for wireless support,
> then USB ethernet plugged ( I know this works already).
>
> Suggestion:
> On your dos boot, create an autoexec.bat that contains simply '@echo off'
> so it doesn't ask you for the date/time each time you boot.
>
> I had to go about it a bit differnetly since I didn't have a floppy
drive,
> but the same basic steps worked for me.
>
> --Pat
>
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, John Mullan wrote:
>
> > Patrick (and all):
> >
> > I have created a page to help you on your quest. Please go to my web
> > page at:
> >
> > http://mullan.dns2go.com/
> >
> > Click on the 'Internet' link on the left panel.
> >
> > Keep in mind that I still consider myself quite a 'beginner' with
Linux.
> > However, if your system is similar to mine (IBM clone type with
> > DiskOnChip2000) then I think following my page will result in a working
> > system.
> >
> > I included all files I used to get a working flash based router. I
have
> > followed all the advice and included the DOC.O module separate in my
> > distribution (ie; not compiled into the kernal).
> >
> > I look forward to all comments (good and bad) so I may improve my first
> > psuedo-HOWTO.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > John
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Patrick
> > Nixon
> > Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 1:51 PM
> > To: John Mullan
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: FW: [Leaf-user] LRP and DOC
> >
> >
> > John,
> > Congrats on getting this working. I'm currently spending most
> > of
> > my weekend attempting to get it working and like charles mentioned, I'm
> > running into a 'insufficent low memory error'. How did you get around
> > that? When I attempted to syslinux the DOC using 1.66 it whined about
> > exclusive access.
> > Perhaps you can do a small write up on the steps you took to
> > complete it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Patrick
> >
> > On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, John Mullan wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry, forgot to leave the link for the file.......
> > >
> > > http://mullan.dns2go.com/files/MullanStein.zip
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: John Mullan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 8:51 AM
> > > To: 'Charles Steinkuehler'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
> > > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > > Subject: RE: [Leaf-user] LRP and DOC
> > >
> > >
> > > Charles....
> > >
> > > FINALLY! It works. And it works great. I think the latest and
> > > greates SYSLINUX (version 1.66) did it for me. Once I re-did the
boot
> >
> > > loader with that, it worked.
> > >
> > > For informational purposes ONLY, if you or any list member would like
> > > to see what it took, I have made a ZIP of all files currently on my
> > > embedded board. Because of the licence thing about M-SYS (and the
> > > fact that I used your sample kernal with DOC in it), this is not a
> > > distribution.
> > >
> > > The board was purchased from ARISE computers, is a PIII 433mhz with
> > > DiskOnChip 2000 (80meg), 32meg RAM, Intel 82559 ethernet on board,
and
> >
> > > DE-538 in the only on-board PCI slot. Obviously this is over-kill
for
> >
> > > the job at hand, but since it was made available to me........ :)
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> > > PS: I like the WEBLET thing. First time for me and it's a nice
> > > feature.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Charles
> > > Steinkuehler
> > > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 2:59 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] LRP and DOC
> > >
> > >
> > > > This results in an immediate 'boot fail' message. Note that I have
> > > > tried minor:1 and minor:0 both with same result. Could there be a
> > > > problem with the boot sector information? Does 'syslinux' work
> > > > properly on D.O.C.?
> > >
> > > I don't know...I have yet to play with syslinux and DOC in an
embedded
> >
> > > environment. I did get a ZF Linux eval board with a DOC, but when I
> > > tried to run syslinux, I never got past the "not enough low memory"
> > > problem (but syslinux *was* running).
> > >
> > > I'm not sure how the other folks who have used DOC's boot their
> > > systems. I suppose you could always fall back to booting dos, and
> > > using ldlinux. I also think there are versions of lilo and grub that
> > > know how to boot from a DOC...
> > >
> > > Charles Steinkuehler
> > > http://lrp.steinkuehler.net
> > > http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror)
> > >
> > >
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