DOC quandry

[David Hamm]

I'm having problems with doc-lilo.  It hangs after printing dLI on the
console.   I followed the steps you suggested.  Any ideas?


 On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 01:58:11PM -0500, David Hamm wrote:
> > Following the PeeWeeLinux-3.html doc I have the DOC mountable.  But pwlconfig
> > doesn't seem to see it.  I've added links in /dev/ for the devices listed in
> > /dev/msys/* and still don't have a main menu choice of Erase-Disk-On-Chip.  Any
> > suggestions?
> >
> I just got done doing this last weekend.
> 1) do you have version 4.2 of the drivers from M-Sys?
> This is kind of important
> 2) Did you compile support into the kernel or are you using a modual?
> You need to have one of these going before the system can see the DOC
> 
> The way I ended up doing this over all was to use pwlconfig to setup a system
> on a 16M hdd partition (the size of my DOC).  I then 'tweeked' it get to get
> my moduals and everything else up and running the way I wanted.
> Then out side of pwl I just copied everything to the DOC
> mount /dev/msys/fla1 /mnt/flash
> cp -dpR /<insert pwl partion name here> /mnt/flash
> 
> I then put doc.b in /mtn/flash/boot and doc-lilo in /mnt/flash/etc
> 
> I then had to reboot into dos to run there dos utils (dupdate) to update the
> firmware for the last time, and rebooted.
> 
> I understand that this is doing things outside of plwconfig which is probably
> to be avoided, but it did work.
> All of what I've just talked about is fairly well listed in the docs for the 
> 4.2 version of the firmware on the M-Sys site.  I typed all of this up from 
> memory so I wouldn't follow it as a step by step but rather a guide to looking
> through the offical docs.
> 
> If I can be of any more help let me know.
> 
> M@
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