From owner-freebsd-small Mon Mar 20 15:22:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9917F37BB90 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:22:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA13417; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:22:23 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200003202322.QAA13417@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: M-systems DiskOnChip In-Reply-To: from David Elkin at "Mar 20, 0 04:45:51 pm" To: Ctdm1@brisbane.qld.gov.au (David Elkin) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:22:23 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, David Elkin wrote: > Hi Guys, > Im trying to find out how to install Freebsd onto A DiskONChip. I cannot > find any documentation at all. Could you please tell me if it is possible and > if so point me in the right direction. > Thankyou > > Dave > ---- Funny, we're trying to do the same thing. We have a 3.4-RELEASE system that can talk to the DiskOnChip, but can't get a kernel to boot up from it. The device driver on the development system works. We can mount the DiskOnChip (as /dev/fla0s4a -- we fdisk'd and disklabel'd it). We can get a kernel installed on the DiskOnChip, and get the BIOS to load that kernel into memory. But we can't figure out what magic incantation it takes to get the kernel to know where its root filesystem is. The "kernel" config option in the config file seems to be being ignored, and I can't grok the disk naming conventions in /boot/loader.rc for the "rootdev" variable. So we get as far as the kernel trying to change root to wd0a and panicing. I'll bet this is easy for someone who's done it. And not to hard for someone who knows his way completely around the 3.4 boot mechanisms. Help? -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message