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more booting from ix86 floppy
- To: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: [ECOS] more booting from ix86 floppy
- From: Kåre Särs <LM dot Ericsson at lmf dot ericsson dot se>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 12:30:07 +0300
- Reply-To: kare dot sars at lmf dot ericsson dot se
Hi
I have used RedBoot and GDB to run and debug a program that uses more than
640kb of ram, and now I want to run this program directly from a floppy.
When I run the program with RedBoot CYG_HAL_STARTUP is set to RAM (for the
program), and I get access to extended memory, but when I want to boot from a
floppy I have to set CYG_HAL_STARTUP to FLOPPY and then I loose the extended
memory.
FLOPPY->mlt_i386_pc_floppy.ldi->only 655360 bytes ram
I know I can still use the extended memory but not with malloc.
Is there an easy way to boot directly from the floppy and still have the
extended memory.
Thankyou!
Kåre