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Re: Downloaded image of Redboot Not Working


On Saturday 26 October 2002 08:31 pm, Vikram Mehta wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have downloaded Redboot.uu nad Redboot.img from the site given
> here.
> I followed the indtructions as given, to install Redboot
> I use the Hyperterminal Utility to download the E7t
> Two things
>
> 1.)Size shown of Installed Redboot on E7t is 37380 and that shown
> in documentation is  41960
> 2.) More importantly, The Redboot is not working as it should .I
> donot get a REdboot CLI, only jumbled characters and commands
> given in the Documnetation sre not working.
> Infact A typical behaviour is that Keyboard KEys are not being
> echoed proeprly, E.g. when a is typed ,it is echoed back as 'q' or
> 'y' etc.
> What should I do.

This may be obvious, but check your baud rate and your cable connection
to the serial port.  It sounds as if you simply have the wrong baud rate.

-Rich

> On Sat, 26 Oct 2002 Jonathan Larmour wrote :
> >Vikram Mehta wrote:
> >>hi,
> >>First of all thanx to Jonathan Larmour for ur response.
> >>
> >>I am downloading RED BOOT.
> >>What is ROMRAM Stratup. I tried to search the net. But found
> >>nothing.  From where can I get to know more abt it
> >
> >ROMRAM startup is where the program initially starts in ROM and
> >pretty
> >much straight away copies itself to RAM and runs from there.
> >Other ARM
> >HALs support it, just not the E7T yet. To add it, at a minimum
> >you need to add a new memory startup type, different from ROM or
> >RAM.
> >
> >The best way to find out about it is to look at other HALs. The
> >ebsa285, edb7xxx, at91 and integrator HALs all support it. Search
> >those for "ROMRAM" and look at their ROMRAM memory layouts (in
> >the include/pkgconf subdirectories of their packages).
> >
> >Once you see what's required for them, you would then know what
> >to add to the E7T HAL.
> >
> >>And Any Ideas on Changing ROMC0N0 not working on BSL.
> >>Wll it work on RedBoot. This was my second question that day
> >
> >I have no idea, sorry. I don't know anything about BSL.
> >
> >Jifl
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