problem with udelay solved - romimage too big
steven james
pyro at linuxlabs.com
Fri Mar 14 11:10:01 CET 2003
Greetings,
These days, LinuxBIOS expects to find a bootloader in ELF format at the
beginning of the ROM. Etherboot has an extension to load an image from a
raw IDE partition. I'm working on one that can handle an ext2
filesystem,
but it's VERY alpha at the moment.
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Alessio Sangalli wrote:
>
> Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Alessio Sangalli wrote:
> >
> >
> > >linux /usr/src/linux
> > >commandline root=/dev/hda1 console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0
> >
> >
> > how could you expect a 256KB romimage with a kernel in there? It's just
> > not possible. I wish it were.
>
>
> :) yes I know. However I couldn't find any config file or example to let
> the kernel image being loaded from the hard disk or IDE in general. On
> cwlinux it's possible to find images that load a kernel named "kernel"
> on the root file system. How can I reproduce this in my config file?
>
> I will try to "grep -r" it out of the sources, but if anybody could
> help... I promise I will write a beautiful howto :)
>
> bye bye!!!
> as
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