Re: [ECOS] How to boot from floppy by using eCos?

["survey liu" <liuxw at 263 dot net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Larmour" <jlarmour@redhat.com>
To: "cguwinds" <cguwinds@mail2000.com.tw>
Cc: "ecos-discuss" <ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: [ECOS] How to boot from floppy by using eCos?


> cguwinds wrote:
> > > cguwinds wrote:
> > > > How to boot from floppy by using eCos?
> > >
> > > Yes. http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/docs-latest/
> > 
> > Ok,I see.
> > I've already download the document,but I can't find which document mention about booting from floppy.
> > I search the key word "floppy" under "ecos-ref.pdf","cdl-guide.pdf"
> > ,"ecos-tutorial-i386PC.pdf" and "user-guides.pdf",
> > but I can't find any document that describe about booting from floppy .
> > Could you tell me which document that I should  use?
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/docs-latest/redboot/x86pc.html for writing a
> RedBoot image to a floppy (you can get prebuilt ones off of
> http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/boards/pcmobo.html or you can build your
> own).
> 
> For your own programs, while it is preferable to load via RedBoot at first,
> later you can write your programs directly to floppy by just reconfiguring
> eCos for FLOPPY startup and writing your program in binary format to floppy
> in the same way as redboot.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!~~~ For x86, the startup field can only be configured to RAM, 
                                                      I don't know why. (It is said on the short description plane while select the startup field)
> 
> Jifl
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