From: David Brennan <eCos@brennanhome.com>
To: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Cc: Nick Garnett <nickg@ecoscentric.com>
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Redboot (i386pc with IDE Flash)
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 03:18:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <411AE197.5000607@brennanhome.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3vffq5ae6.fsf@xl5.calivar.com>
Nick,
Can you easily summarize why redboot does not work with GRUB? This is a
feature that I am going to be looking for in the near future. Is it just
something that no one has tackled? Or is it impossible for some reason?
I am working on a VME based PC and have several available target
machines, but only one floppy. So I want to be able to boot off of CF
and still load/debug using Ethernet. If this is possible but just needs
work, can you give me some pointers as to what needs to be done?
Thanks
David Brennan
Nick Garnett wrote:
>bhanuprakash kandimalla <kbhanu@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>
>
>>Hello:
>>I am working on i386pc. I am succesful in building a
>>redboot(floppy) and the pc is able to bootup. The
>>i386pc system has a IDE Flash disk. I am able to build
>>ecos libraries and able to use fat file system on this
>>IDE Flash disk. My plan is to put a redboot image on
>>the IDE Flash disk so that the PC boots from this IDE
>>flash disk instead of a floppy. I am insearch of
>>finding solutions for the following:
>>1. I hope redboot(ROM) or redboot(ROM_RAM) will be
>>needed. Am I right?
>>
>>
>
>No, as the names of these configurations imply, these are intended for
>booting from ROM, not disk.
>
>
>
>
>>2. If I can put the redboot(ROM).bin or
>>redboot(ROM_RAM).bin on the IDE Flash Disk and set the
>>pc BIOS to boot from IDE , will the pc boots up with
>>the .bin file? or what file or type of file is pc
>>looking for booting?
>>Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>
>For booting from IDE disk you should use the GRUB support. Read the
>documentation at:
>
>http://ecos.sourceware.org/docs-latest/user-guide/setup-i386-pc.html
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-10 20:54 bhanuprakash kandimalla
2004-08-11 8:47 ` Nick Garnett
2004-08-12 3:18 ` David Brennan [this message]
2004-08-12 10:25 ` Nick Garnett
2004-08-12 13:09 ` David Brennan
2004-08-12 13:36 ` Nick Garnett
2004-08-15 0:43 ` David Brennan
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