On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Luc Hermans wrote:
> I use (Msystems) DiskOnChip flash but would like to reply also
> I use use the MSDOS filesystem and boot with SYSLINUX a
> ram disk rootfs. Then I mount the msdos flash.
What did you do to get that working? I've just spent several days trying
to do pretty much the same thing.
Eventually I managed to get FreeDOS to run on it together with Loadlin (by
formatting it with M-system's tools then running the "sys" command- using
FreeDos's "format /s" corrupted the FS). Neither installing Syslinux from
Linux (corrupted the FS), or installing Syslinux from DOS (seemed to work,
but when Syslinux stopped part way through booting with a "Not
enough DOS memory" message when using the P&P firmware and a "Booting
failed: replace disk and press a key" message with the other firmware)
worked. Mounting the DOC under Linux (2.4.0-test8) causes lots of read
errors, and also seems to have a tendancy to corrupt the FS when you write
to it, and definitely corrupts it if you do something like formatting it
or installing syslinux.
I even managed to completely kill one DOC by trying to restore a known
good firmware to it under Linux (doing "cp <file> /dev/mtd0" where <file>
was previously obtained by doing "cp /dev/mtd0 <file>") after it got
corrupted one time. It isn't recognised on boot any more, and neither
Linux or the M-systems tools can find it.
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