RE: Interesting HOWTO

[Steven James]

Greetings,

I suppose I really should write up a howto for that.

So far, It has been tested on a few i7501 boards (Supermicro x5dpr, Intel
Clearwater, Tyan Tiger-7501).

The drive was a TrekStore Thumbdrive. It's SCSI over bulk transfer.

Also worked connected through the hub in an iMac keyboard.

To test it, in brief,

Go to baremetal/lib
make
cd ../usb
make

This will produce an ELF image suitable for LinuxBIOS (or bootselect).

The usb loader will attempt to load a kernel from the first partition on
the drive that has the boot flag set. The image should be written to the
raw partition (using dd or similar).

G'day,
sjames

-------------------------steven james, director of research, linux labs
... ........ ..... ....                    230 peachtree st nw ste 2701
the original linux labs                             atlanta.ga.us 30303
      -since 1995                              http://www.linuxlabs.com
                                   office 404.577.7747 fax [phone]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> Hello (again) from Gregg C Levine
> Great news!
> Now the next great question. For which mother boards have you tested
> this? Or one anyway. And of course which USB drives have you tested?
>
> I remember this issue first coming up, when our friends at M-SYS,
> launched their Disk-On-Key project. One of us, mentioned the device,
> and posted a link for the thing.
>
> Now the next big question, have you had a chance to create a HOWTO for
> using your baremetal boot loader?
> Gregg C Levine [e-mail]
>
> "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
> "Use the Force, Luke."  Obi-Wan Kenobi
> (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi )
> (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda )
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [e-mail] [mailto:linuxbios-
> > [e-mail]] On Behalf Of Steven James
> > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 11:25 AM
> > To: Stefan Reinauer
> > Cc: Pedro M.; [e-mail]
> > Subject: Re: Interesting HOWTO
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I just checked in a polling USB stack (FINALLY!) in
> > freebios/util/baremetal/usb
> >
> > So far, it only supports uhci, but successfully enumerates the bus
>
> and
> > loads an ELF image from some USB drives (It loads from the ones I
>
> have
> > anyway).
> >
> > G'day,
> > sjames
> >
> > -------------------------steven james, director of research, linux
>
> labs
> > ... ........ ..... ....                    230 peachtree st nw ste
>
> 2701
> > the original linux labs                             atlanta.ga.us
>
> 30303
> >   -since 1995
>
> http://www.linuxlabs.com
> >                                office 404.577.7747 fax
>
> 404.577.7743
> >
> > On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > > Pedro M.  [040129 19:18]:
> > > > http://www.wlug.org.nz/KeyDrive
> > >
> > > cite:
> > > ------------------ 8<
> > > You can even boot from one, if your BIOS knows how to talk to
>
> them.
> > > ------------------ 8<
> > > LinuxBIOS can't :-(
> > >
> > > Stefan
> >
> > Linuxbios mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
>
> Linuxbios mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios