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Re: how to create a red boot image for hard disk
- From: Nick Garnett <nickg at ecoscentric dot com>
- To: giri at jntu dot net
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 11 Dec 2003 11:13:10 +0000
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] how to create a red boot image for hard disk
- References: <4188.203.200.40.199.1071116877.squirrel@www.jntu.net>
"Giri" <giri@jntu.net> writes:
> hai,
> can anybody please tell me how can i create the redboot image for hard
> disk.
> my target platform is i386.
>
> 1. can i use the same redboot_FLOPPY.ecm file for hard disk. if not could
> u please send the appropriate one for hard disk.
> 2. what are the options in the configuration tool i need to modify for
> redboot image.
Currently there is no support for running RedBoot from an IDE
disk. The floppy booting RedBoot simply occupies the first 120-odd
sectors of the disk. Doing this on a hard disk would destroy any
filesystem on it.
For booting from formatted disks we support GRUB, but only to boot
eCos applications, not RedBoot since using a bootloader to load a
bootloader seemed a pointless exercise.
See the following documentation for details:
http://ecos.sourceware.org/docs-latest/user-guide/setup-i386-pc.html
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Nick Garnett eCos Kernel Architect
http://www.ecoscentric.com The eCos and RedBoot experts
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