From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Trenton D. Adams" To: "'eCos mailing list'" Subject: [ECOS] a couple of questions on redboot for the PC Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 13:28:00 -0000 Message-id: <005a01c11936$18776210$090110ac@TRENT> X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00930.html What's the conv=sync parameter to dd for? There's no need to pad NULs to ibs-size, is there? I'm not sure how eCos is setup, but I have an interesting idea. I was thinking, the image of RedBoot could be loaded into a reserved part of RAM. Then, once this is done, hook Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart eCos from that image instead of restart the computer? Some part of RAM could be reserved for this image. Wouldn't it be as simple as creating a boot sector that does this, and then continuing to load eCos normally? We could reserve the boot sector for the program that does this! That would be a lot faster booting! :) Maybe it's already been done? Trenton D. Adams Embedded Developer Windows Developer Extreme Engineering Ltd. Calgary Alberta Phone: 403 640 9494 ext 208 Fax: 403 640 9599