[ECOS] booting eCos 101

["Chris Dixon" <cdixon at digitalvideocommunications dot com>]

I have a brand-new installed Linux 9 system with the eCos distribution
installed according to the instructions, which will be my development
station and a PC I want to boot with eCos.

I made a Redboot floppy that boots and I have a RedBoot> prompt on my
target. I can ping it.

How do I get to the next stage where the redboot boots the eCos?

1. I have setup tftp on my Workstation. It seems to be working (I tested it
with the tftp client) It accesses files in /tftpboot. There is a directory
in there X86PC with some files in it. Is that the eCos kernel? How do I tell
the Redboot client to load it? When I type load -v <filename> I get an error
that I have an invalid image type. Which file should it be loading?

2. My configtool is happily building all kinds of things and saying it was
successful. How do I make it so that stuff that it built (tests) get sent to
the target? I found the Tools-Run dialog but it fails. (not surprising if my
target isnt booted yet)

I can get gdb to connect to the target and stop and start execution but no
other useful information comes of it. What's this Insight thing all about?

Chris


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