Re: [ECOS] x86 System Boot & FAT32 Disk system

["Steve West" <steve at sgwest dot com>]

The system boot loader reads the eCOS kernel from hard disk, loads it into 
ram then executes it. The eCOS kernel is built as a binary executable image.

Steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Lunn" <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: "Steve West" <steve@sgwest.com>
Cc: "Andrew Lunn" <andrew@lunn.ch>; <ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: [ECOS] x86 System Boot & FAT32 Disk system


> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:57:26PM -0500, Steve West wrote:
> > This System is designed for an x86 PC based system.
> >
> > System Boot:
> > 1) You format the hard drive with FAT32
> > 2) Boot from floppy or USB
> > 3) Run Program to install the system boot loader on Hard Disk
>
> What is the system boot loader? Something well known like grub, or
> something new?
>
> > FAT32 Hard Disk System:
> >
> > 1) Choose DMA or PIO Mode
>
> The DMA code will be interesting. eCos only supports PIO on IDE
> drivers. Could you make this code available?
>
>        Thanks
>                Andrew 


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