From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Stanislav Meduna <stano@meduna.org>
Cc: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Installing Redboot on a pendrive
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:25:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090711092504.GG8175@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A58502D.2060701@meduna.org>
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:41:17AM +0200, Stanislav Meduna wrote:
> Alessio Bianchi wrote:
> > Hi, I've been trying to create a pendrive (to boot off a regular PC)
> > with Redboot, but unfortunately without much success.
>
> AFAIK on a PC the eCos only supports booting RedBoot from a floppy.
> If the pendrive can't masquerade itself as floppy to the
> machine (I happen to have one that can, but most can't),
> I think you are out of luck.
>
> The recommended way to boot eCos applications is via GRUB.
Take a look at the sites which explain how to get linux booting from a
pen driver. Any sites which use grub to get linux booted are
applicable for getting eCos booted.
And it you need redboot for gdb support, use grub to boot redboot, to
boot your application.
Andrew
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-11 9:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-11 8:21 Alessio Bianchi
2009-07-11 8:41 ` Stanislav Meduna
2009-07-11 9:25 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2009-07-11 11:44 ` Alessio Bianchi
2009-07-11 12:47 ` Andrew Lunn
2009-07-11 13:02 ` Alessio Bianchi
2009-07-11 13:22 ` Andrew Lunn
2009-07-11 13:26 ` Alessio Bianchi
2009-07-13 14:48 ` Daniel Saltmann
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