* Re: [ECOS] Re: Loader and Disk Geometry (x86)
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@ 2001-05-14 10:45 ` elf
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From: elf @ 2001-05-14 10:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Roman Khvatov; +Cc: elf, ecos-discuss
Even requiring a FAT16 partition is inconvenient. All I do is write
the ecos boot image to the partition I want to use and I'm good to go.
From Linux booted on my target system:
dd if=gdb_module.bin of=/dev/fla2
I'm using Lilo on /dev/fla. I'll probably move to GRUB, eventually.
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 06:49:19PM +0400, Roman Khvatov wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
> > Interesting. I'm wanting to boot to an arbitrary hard drive partition
> > without a filesystem. The MSDOS requirements are a problem as I don't
> > have it.
>
> You won't need to have a MSDOS installed to use this kind of boot, only
> MSDOS based file system (FAT16) must exists. If you need to boot from
> raw partition (without any file system at all), you need another one kind
> of boot loader - some kind of original boot, adapted to read not from start
> of disk but from start of partition.
>
> BTW - fmt.exe utility can create FAT16 file system on HDD (but only with
> it's own partition table)
>
> Roman.
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* Re: [ECOS] Re: Loader and Disk Geometry (x86)
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@ 2001-04-26 7:15 ` elf
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From: elf @ 2001-04-26 7:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Roman Khvatov; +Cc: ecos-discuss
Does one of your loaders read the partition table? I want to be able
to boot from a hard drive partition so I can multi-boot several
operating systems.
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* [ECOS] Re: Loader and Disk Geometry (x86)
@ 2001-04-25 6:46 Roman Khvatov
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From: Roman Khvatov @ 2001-04-25 6:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ecos-discuss
Hi!
>
> I'm getting some information about problems with the bootstrap loader
> from my hardware vendor. It turns out that the disk geometry of their
> flash isn't that of a floppy, and therefore, the int13 code doesn't
> work correctly.
It doesn't work at all - HDD is not a floppy, and STUB configuration (as used
for floppy config) doesn't suite for big application.
>
> I'm going to make some changes to the loader to handle this as long as
> no one else has already done it.
>
> Anyone fixed this problem yet?
Yes, I'd make a pack of loaders, but I can't send it on list (archive is a
big enought to not to post it on list), so I can send it directly to anyone
who can place it in some public accessible place.
Roman.
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