Re: [ECOS] Redboot (i386pc with IDE Flash)

[David Brennan <eCos at brennanhome dot 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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