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To: Abraham vd Merwe <abz@frogfoot.net>
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Subject: Re: booting without VGA 
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abz@frogfoot.net said:
>  I'm currently wokring on a embedded system for a camera device. It
> runs linux and we use the M-Systems DiskOnChip driver (a seperate
> module available from their site) for storage and as a boot device.

> The problem is if we boot with a kernel WITH vga support enabled, it
> boots fine. If we disable vga support it doesn't seem to boot. What
> makes it even stranger is that if we boot with that same non-vga
> kernel using an IDE disk as boot device it also boots fine. 

You're using binary-only code. You shouldn't expect anyone on the l-k 
mailing list to give your problem a second thought.

Does it work if you use the GPL'd DiskOnChip driver which is in 
2.4.0-test12? You can also use it in 2.2 kernels.


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dwmw2


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