From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18101 invoked by alias); 11 Jul 2005 13:20:43 -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 18054 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Jul 2005 13:20:29 -0000 Received: from smtp3.iitb.ac.in (HELO smtp1.iitb.ac.in) (203.199.81.149) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with SMTP; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:20:29 +0000 Received: (qmail 5142 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2005 18:50:25 +0530 Received: from unknown (HELO ldns1.iitb.ac.in) (10.200.12.1) by smtp1.iitb.ac.in with SMTP; 11 Jul 2005 18:50:25 +0530 Received: (qmail 18604 invoked by uid 509); 11 Jul 2005 13:15:06 -0000 Received: from 10.105.1.1 by ldns1 (envelope-from , uid 501) with qmail-scanner-1.25 (clamdscan: 0.86.1/974. spamassassin: 3.0.2. Clear:RC:1(10.105.1.1):. Processed in 0.026799 secs); 11 Jul 2005 13:15:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cse.iitb.ac.in) (10.105.1.1) by ldns1.iitb.ac.in with SMTP; 11 Jul 2005 13:15:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 28014 invoked by uid 509); 11 Jul 2005 13:18:14 -0000 Received: from vamshi@cse.iitb.ac.in by jeeves.cse.iitb.ac.in by uid 507 with qmail-scanner-1.22-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.73. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:RC:1(10.105.1.11):. Processed in 0.014703 secs); 11 Jul 2005 13:18:14 -0000 X-Antivirus-cse.iitb.ac.in-Mail-From: vamshi@cse.iitb.ac.in via jeeves.cse.iitb.ac.in X-Antivirus-cse.iitb.ac.in: 1.22-st-qms (Clear:RC:1(10.105.1.11):. Processed in 0.014703 secs Process 28009) Received: from mars.cse.iitb.ac.in (10.105.1.11) by cse.iitb.ac.in with SMTP; 11 Jul 2005 13:18:14 -0000 Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:20:00 -0000 From: R Vamshi Krishna To: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: <20050711131602.GD15048@lunn.ch> Message-ID: References: <20050711114120.GC15048@lunn.ch> <20050711131602.GD15048@lunn.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: [ECOS] A suitable x86 based board X-SW-Source: 2005-07/txt/msg00109.txt.bz2 Actually we are doing this for an small automotive, which we have been building. Now I think durin experiments, the hard-disk might not withstand the physical strain. So is it possible to boot from usb ? -- Vamshi On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Andrew Lunn wrote: > 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