Ok. by a fluke accident, i've gotten the DOC recognized. I'm on a 2x750P3 SMP Tyan Tiger 1832dl and induced a "kernel oops" on cpu1 by trying to insmod ./bios.o (http://www.openbios.info/download/index.html devbios-0.3.2.tar.gz)
the docprobe.o is compiled with "Physical Address = 0" and no other options for docprobe.o. ... using doc2001.o i've attached dmesg output below of the oops condition when trying to insmod bios.o and then after the kernel-oops occurred, modprobed mtdcore, mtdchar,dos2001,dosprobe doc_config_location=0xfff00000. (unknown if the doc_config_location is needed...have yet to try without as i've only duplicated 3 times.) -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html Jun 8 14:05:36 No recognised DiskOnChip devices found Jun 8 14:06:22 Using configured DiskOnChip probe address 0xfff00000 Jun 8 14:06:22 Possible DiskOnChip with unknown ChipID FF found at 0xfff00000 Jun 8 14:06:22 No recognised DiskOnChip devices found Jun 8 14:07:18 BIOS driver v0.3.2 (writing disabled) for 2.4.20-gaming-r3 Jun 8 14:07:18 BIOS: host bridge is 8086, 7190, 0 Jun 8 14:07:18 BIOS: isa bridge is 8086, 7110, 38 Jun 8 14:07:18 BIOS: Probing PCI device with 64k rom Jun 8 14:07:18 BIOS: Probing PCI device with 1024k rom Jun 8 14:07:18 BIOS: Probing PCI device with 64k rom Jun 8 14:07:18 BIOS: No flash devices found. Jun 8 14:07:41 BIOS driver v0.3.2 (writing disabled) for 2.4.20-gaming-r3 Jun 8 14:07:41 BIOS: host bridge is 8086, 7190, 0 Jun 8 14:07:41 BIOS: isa bridge is 8086, 7110, 38 Jun 8 14:07:41 Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 Jun 8 14:07:41 printing eip: Jun 8 14:07:41 fdc7245a Jun 8 14:07:41 *pde = 00000000 Jun 8 14:07:41 Oops: 0000 Jun 8 14:07:41 bios agpgart nvidia parport_pc lp parport mousedev sr_mod sd_mod sg emu10k1 sound soundcore ac97_codec scanner usb-storage hid input usb-ohci uhci supermount eepro100 mii raid1 raid0 md ide-scsi scsi_mod Jun 8 14:07:41 CPU: 1 Jun 8 14:07:41 EIP: 0010:[<fdc7245a>] Tainted: P Jun 8 14:07:41 EFLAGS: 00010046 Jun 8 14:07:41 eax: 00000000 ebx: f70da000 ecx: 8000384c edx: 00000000 Jun 8 14:07:41 esi: 00000000 edi: 00000292 ebp: 00000000 esp: f70dbe80 Jun 8 14:07:41 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Jun 8 14:07:41 Process insmod (pid: 2010, stackpage=f70db000) Jun 8 14:07:41 Stack: fdc71ae1 00000000 00000000 fde84000 00201000 f74db280 00000000 f74db280 Jun 8 14:07:41 000001f0 f74db2ec 00200000 ffe00000 ffffffff 00000000 c0118bc1 00200000 Jun 8 14:07:41 00000001 00000000 c011f3e0 ffffffea 00000000 00000000 00000000 fdc71df8 Jun 8 14:07:41 Call Trace: [<fdc71ae1>] [<c0118bc1>] [<c011f3e0>] [<fdc71df8>] [<fdc719c0>] [<fdc74140>] [<fdc700b3>] [<fdc74000>] [<fdc735ca>] [<c0120634>] [<fdc70060>] [<fdc70060>] [<c010787f>] Jun 8 14:07:41 Code: 0f b6 04 10 0f b6 c0 c3 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 8d bc 27 00 00 Jun 8 14:07:47 <6>Using configured DiskOnChip probe address 0xfff00000 Jun 8 14:07:47 DiskOnChip Millennium found at address 0xFFF00000 Jun 8 14:07:47 Flash chip found: Manufacturer ID: 98, Chip ID: E6 (Toshiba TC58V64AFT/DC) Jun 8 14:07:47 1 flash chips found. Total DiskOnChip size: 8 MiB Jun 8 14:08:33 Using configured DiskOnChip probe address 0xfff00000 Jun 8 14:08:33 DiskOnChip Millennium found at address 0xFFF00000 Jun 8 14:08:33 Flash chip found: Manufacturer ID: 98, Chip ID: E6 (Toshiba TC58V64AFT/DC) Jun 8 14:08:33 1 flash chips found. Total DiskOnChip size: 8 MiB Jun 8 14:08:43 NFTL driver: nftlcore.c $Revision: 1.85 $, nftlmount.c $Revision: 1.25 $ Jun 8 14:08:44 nftla: p1 Jun 8 14:08:44 devfs_register(disc): NULL ops, got fde8a810 from major table Jun 8 14:08:44 devfs_register(part1): NULL ops, got fde8a810 from major table _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

