From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21341 invoked by alias); 11 Jul 2005 13:23:28 -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 21243 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Jul 2005 13:23:22 -0000 Received: from anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net (HELO anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net) (194.217.242.85) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:23:22 +0000 Received: from calivar.demon.co.uk ([83.104.54.243] helo=xl5.calivar.com) by anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1DryBa-000J6T-Gb; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:19:02 +0000 Received: from xl5.calivar.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xl5.calivar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA0552B34B; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:23:18 +0100 (BST) To: R Vamshi Krishna Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com References: <20050711114120.GC15048@lunn.ch> From: Nick Garnett Original-Sender: nickg@ecoscentric.com Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:23:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: [ECOS] A suitable x86 based board X-SW-Source: 2005-07/txt/msg00110.txt.bz2 R Vamshi Krishna writes: > 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 .. If you install GRUB on the boot device then RedBoot can be booted from there. If you are also booting Linux you will need it anyway. eCos applications can also be loaded directly from GRUB. -- Nick Garnett eCos Kernel Architect http://www.ecoscentric.com The eCos and RedBoot experts -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss