From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14210 invoked by alias); 11 Jul 2005 13:16:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Received: (qmail 13875 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Jul 2005 13:16:19 -0000 Received: from londo.lunn.ch (HELO londo.lunn.ch) (80.238.139.98) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:16:19 +0000 Received: from lunn by londo.lunn.ch with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Dry8g-000451-00; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:16:02 +0200 Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:16:00 -0000 To: R Vamshi Krishna Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <20050711131602.GD15048@lunn.ch> Mail-Followup-To: R Vamshi Krishna , ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com References: <20050711114120.GC15048@lunn.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Andrew Lunn Subject: Re: [ECOS] A suitable x86 based board X-SW-Source: 2005-07/txt/msg00108.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 06:41:38PM +0530, R Vamshi Krishna wrote: > > Yeah PC Motherboard is also fine. But what I wanted was that is it > possible to do away with a floppy drive totally ? > > We have hard-disk/usb pen drive for logging data .. > And we have ideflash. > > Is it possible to have the application on the hard-drive/usb-pen drive > /flash such that manual loading can be done away with. > > Sorry if the question is too naive .. I think if you use grub on the hard disk this should be possible. I've not done it myself though.... Andrew -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss