Re: [ECOS] booting eCos 101

["Chris Dixon" <cdixon at digitalvideocommunications dot com>]

Well Well. It was actually working. I ran the tests again after I had
manually set ip addresses on the target and the host and it worked. I got
results in the pci test so it must be good. Nothing appears on the pc screen
but I suppose that is OK!

Chris
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Dixon" <cdixon@digitalvideocommunications.com>
To: <ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 6:13 PM
Subject: [ECOS] booting eCos 101


> I have a brand-new installed Linux 9 system with the eCos distribution
> installed according to the instructions, which will be my development
> station and a PC I want to boot with eCos.
>
> I made a Redboot floppy that boots and I have a RedBoot> prompt on my
> target. I can ping it.
>
> How do I get to the next stage where the redboot boots the eCos?
>
> 1. I have setup tftp on my Workstation. It seems to be working (I tested
it
> with the tftp client) It accesses files in /tftpboot. There is a directory
> in there X86PC with some files in it. Is that the eCos kernel? How do I
tell
> the Redboot client to load it? When I type load -v <filename> I get an
error
> that I have an invalid image type. Which file should it be loading?
>
> 2. My configtool is happily building all kinds of things and saying it was
> successful. How do I make it so that stuff that it built (tests) get sent
to
> the target? I found the Tools-Run dialog but it fails. (not surprising if
my
> target isnt booted yet)
>
> I can get gdb to connect to the target and stop and start execution but no
> other useful information comes of it. What's this Insight thing all about?
>
> Chris
>
>
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