I cannot accurately say how I got rid of the low memory error. I had tried different kernal combinations with various results ranging from the low memory error to just plain 'boot fail'.
However, I am going to save my system and retry from the start (making notes). Assuming I get a repeat success, I will write a text on the steps. One thing to try, however, is to make a working boot floppy that allows you to mount the DOC. I found this helpful in knowing the MAJOR device number that it found the DOC on. I had read several texts that mentioned various numbers. Since I do not have a full working Linux system, I had to use the DOS 'rdev' function and it only takes numeric parameters. Standby in the next couple of days and I will provide the text and a legal distribution of my working system. It does NOT all fit on one 1,680K floppy, I use too many modules. It will be provided in a ZIP file. Cheers, John -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Patrick Nixon Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 1:51 PM To: John Mullan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FW: [Leaf-user] LRP and DOC John, Congrats on getting this working. I'm currently spending most of my weekend attempting to get it working and like charles mentioned, I'm running into a 'insufficent low memory error'. How did you get around that? When I attempted to syslinux the DOC using 1.66 it whined about exclusive access. Perhaps you can do a small write up on the steps you took to complete it? Thanks, Patrick On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, John Mullan wrote: > Sorry, forgot to leave the link for the file....... > > http://mullan.dns2go.com/files/MullanStein.zip > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Mullan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 8:51 AM > To: 'Charles Steinkuehler'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [Leaf-user] LRP and DOC > > > Charles.... > > FINALLY! It works. And it works great. I think the latest and > greates SYSLINUX (version 1.66) did it for me. Once I re-did the boot > loader with that, it worked. > > For informational purposes ONLY, if you or any list member would like > to see what it took, I have made a ZIP of all files currently on my > embedded board. Because of the licence thing about M-SYS (and the > fact that I used your sample kernal with DOC in it), this is not a > distribution. > > The board was purchased from ARISE computers, is a PIII 433mhz with > DiskOnChip 2000 (80meg), 32meg RAM, Intel 82559 ethernet on board, and > DE-538 in the only on-board PCI slot. Obviously this is over-kill for > the job at hand, but since it was made available to me........ :) > > John > > PS: I like the WEBLET thing. First time for me and it's a nice > feature. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Charles > Steinkuehler > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 2:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] LRP and DOC > > > > This results in an immediate 'boot fail' message. Note that I have > > tried minor:1 and minor:0 both with same result. Could there be a > > problem with the boot sector information? Does 'syslinux' work > > properly on D.O.C.? > > I don't know...I have yet to play with syslinux and DOC in an embedded > environment. I did get a ZF Linux eval board with a DOC, but when I > tried to run syslinux, I never got past the "not enough low memory" > problem (but syslinux *was* running). > > I'm not sure how the other folks who have used DOC's boot their > systems. I suppose you could always fall back to booting dos, and > using ldlinux. I also think there are versions of lilo and grub that > know how to boot from a DOC... > > Charles Steinkuehler > http://lrp.steinkuehler.net > http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leaf-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > > > _______________________________________________ > Leaf-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
