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Re: Boot from DOS?(!)
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at ecoscentric dot com>
- To: Chris Paulson-Ellis <chris at edesix dot com>
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 14 Aug 2002 08:32:40 -0600
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Boot from DOS?(!)
- References: <009e01c2439d$059bac90$3201a8c0@dougie>
On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 08:15, Chris Paulson-Ellis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there an easy way to boot eCos from DOS?
>
> I have a customer that wants to move an old system from DOS to eCos, but we
> don't have enough boards to be able to flash redboot onto one of them.
> Therefore, I would like to keep the existing DOS boot for the time being and
> somehow bootstrap eCos from a DOS exe. Does anyone have any ideas?
Booting from floppy isn't good enough?
Reminder: eCos is only set up to run on 80386 and newer CPUs
(just in case we're talking about some old 80286 or worse)
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