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Re: Redboot builds correctly?
- From: John Dallaway <jld at ecoscentric dot com>
- To: Gregg C Levine <drwho8 at worldnet dot att dot net>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:26:16 +0100
- Subject: [ECOS] Re: Redboot builds correctly?
- Organization: eCosCentric Limited
I wrote:
> Hi Gregg
>
> Gregg C Levine wrote:
>
>> For a change my configuration to build a working redboot image works. But
>> it only creates the redboot.elf image, rather then a copy of redboot.bin.
>> Can one of you who have gone down this path, recommend a series of steps
>> that will create the requisite file? This is for the generic I386pc
>> platform.
>
> Have you selected the appropriate value for the "Startup type"
> (CYG_HAL_STARTUP) in your eCos configuration? For example, if you want to
> boot RedBoot from a diskette, you will need to select FLOPPY startup
> before building the source code. redboot.bin should then be generated by
> default.
I should add that importing hal/i386/pc/<version>/misc/redboot_FLOPPY.ecm in
accordance with the RedBoot documentation should set CYG_HAL_STARTUP to
"FLOPPY" without further intervention.
John Dallaway
eCosCentric Limited
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