[ECOS] Re: booting from floppy.

[Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>]

> Ranjith P Antony wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just build the ecos with the configuration tool for i386 pc target. I
> have build it successfully, after so much effort. I have configured the
> build for floppy as startup.
> 
> I thought a boot image will be downloaded to the floppy disk, that I have
> in drive a: when I ran the build. But  the build resulted in a directory
> called i386 on my computer which is 11MB. So, I suppose this is not a
> boot image.

I think you should look closer at the documentation!
 
> How can I generate a boot image to copy that to floppy disk and further
> to boot a laptop with that floppy.
> The build I generated was using the configuration tool, which is
> installed on a XP machine.
> Please do advice me on this problem

The best way to start is to boot RedBoot from the floppy, and then download
eCos programs to it using GDB. Prebuilt RedBoot binaries are available from
http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/boards/redbootbins/

Jifl
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