linuxbios (fwd)

[steven james]

Greetings,

Not sure about first question, but I suspect that DOS can't see the DOC
because of overwriting the M-SYS boot block.

The Doc normally loads a BIOS extender from block 0 on power up which the
BIOS runs. The extender hooks int 13 so that DOS will see it as a drive.

If block 0 is overwritten, that will fail.

G'day,
sjames




On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:

> 
> any hints? 
> 
> zengqi, please send these messages to this list. I don't have time right 
> now to help you. Sorry!
> 
> ron
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 01:29:32 +0800
> From: 
> To: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov>
> Subject: linuxbios
> 
>  
> Dear Mr Ronald G
> 
>   Now I have two issues about Linux-BIOS booting IDE ,I hope you can help me!
>  
>   1)I hope my computer  boot from Linux-BIOS and load kernel from IDE harddisk,
> not from DOC.SO I add "BOOT_IDE=1" into m758lmr+.config  ,but when I use the command as follow:
>    linuxbios.init m758lmr+.config 
> ,linux.bin.gz, linuxbios.strip and docipl can not be created.(Before I add BOOT_IDE , the command was
> worked well),why?
>   
>   2)In linux ,After I insert two modules the DOC2000 and Docprobe (doc_config_location=0xfffc8000 )and use
>  command "flash_on",I can recognize DOC . The problem is that I can not recognize DOC in DOS.(I would like
>   to use tooling such as DINFO or DFORMAT to serch DOC,but failed),why?
> 
>   the hardware : a. pcchips m758lmr+
>                             b. two bios :linuxbios and normal bios 
>   the kernel of linux is 2.4.19
>   
> regards
> 
> Zengqi
> 
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