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Re: Re: Redboot builds correctly?


Hello again from Gregg C Levine
Thank you, John. That's what I wanted to hear, and see. Your message spelled
out, exactly what I needed to know. Andrew Lunn, you, ah, missed that point.
Gregg C Levine drwho8@worldnet.att.net
"Oh my!" The Second Doctor's nearly favorite phrase.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Dallaway" <jld@ecoscentric.com>
To: <ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: "Gregg C Levine" <drwho8@worldnet.att.net>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: Redboot builds correctly?


> On Monday 16 Jun 2003 16:50, Gregg C Levine wrote:
>
> > Perhaps I should have clarified my opening remarks. Redboot does build
> > correctly, but this is using the GUI based configuration tool, and the
> > resulting file, is indeed "redboot.elf". I examined the pulldown menus,
> > regarding your suggestions, and I can't find them. I also examined the
> > tree view displayed for the configuration file, and they don't seem to
> > allow it. Oh there is a box for my requested file name, and type but it
> > is greyed out. I'll keep looking.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John Dallaway" <jld@ecoscentric.com>
> > To: "Gregg C Levine" <drwho8@worldnet.att.net>
> > Cc: <ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
> > Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 4:04 AM
> > Subject: [ECOS] Re: Redboot builds correctly?
> >
> > > Have you selected the appropriate value for the "Startup type"
> > > (CYG_HAL_STARTUP) in your eCos configuration? For example, if you want
> > > to boot RedBoot from a diskette, you will need to select FLOPPY
startup
> > > before building the source code. redboot.bin should then be generated
by
> > > default.
>
> The recommeded method for building RedBoot images uses the ecosconfig
> command line tool as described in the eCos documentation. If you are
> building RedBoot using the configtool, you will need to first select the
> "i386 PC target" hardware template and the "redboot" packages template
> using the Build->Templates dialog and then import the appropriate RedBoot
> minimal configuration file (eg
>
c:\cygwin\opt\ecos\ecos-2.0\packages\hal\i386\pc\v2_0\misc\redboot_FLOPPY.ec
m)
> using the File->Import dialog.
>
> John Dallaway
> eCosCentric Limited


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