Re: Experiences on Etherboot for IDE Compact flash and FLASHROMS

Thanks.
Do we need to set any of these options as well in this case
option BOOT_IDE=1
option IDE_BOOT_DRIVE=2
option ONE_TRACK=32

Could one please confirm on this one as well.

Regards
Deepak

[e-mail] wrote
On Thu, 1 May 2003 [e-mail] wrote:
> Basically, I have to put the etherboot payload and LinuxBIOS on 
> 256K/512K FLASH ROMS and the Linux kernel image(2.4.18-3)
> and application on Compact Flash ide.
> Some kind of HOWTO/experience from many who have tried 
> etherboot in this situation.

target pcm-5823
mainboard advantech/pcm-5823

# Enable Serial Console for debugging
option SERIAL_CONSOLE=1
option TTYS0_BAUD=38400

option DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL=9
option DEBUG

option RAMTEST=1
option USE_GENERIC_ROM=1
option USE_ELF_BOOT=1
option ROM_SIZE=262144
option STD_FLASH=1

#payload ../elfImage.9load
payload ../eepro100.ebi

option PAYLOAD_SIZE=196608

===
This will build a 256K linuxbios with etherboot in it. Get an etherboot 
that will load from IDE.

To get your payload on CF: 
First, you MUST fdisk the CF. Make the whole thing a DOS partition, 
doesn't matter. I have found the hard way that for some reason etherboot 
will not work right unless the CF has a partition table on it. I have not 
followed the whole thing through and I assume it is a need for C/H/S info 
that is not there without a partition table or some such.

Then mkelfImage on the kernel of choice.

Then dd if=elfImage_of_kernel of=/dev/hdc bs=4096 skip=1

That's what I do.

ron

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Experiences on Etherboot for IDE Compact flash and FLASHROMS

[ron minnich]

On Thu, 1 May 2003 [e-mail] wrote:
> Thanks.
> Do we need to set any of these options as well in this case
> option BOOT_IDE=1
> option IDE_BOOT_DRIVE=2
> option ONE_TRACK=32

well, rather than doing that, why don't you do a config with this config 
file and see how those options are set. And do some experimentation. There 
is no substitute for doing the work with this type of system -- you'll 
never learn anything otherwise.

ron

Experiences on Etherboot for IDE Compact flash and FLASHROMS

[Deepak Kotian]

Got it.
I thought there is a standard procedure for etherboot in these situtation.
I am checking out various combination and will continue to do that...

Thanks
Regards
Deepak

----- Original Message -----
From: "ron minnich" 
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Subject: Re: Experiences on Etherboot for IDE Compact flash and FLASHROMS
> On Thu, 1 May 2003 [e-mail] wrote:
> > Thanks.
> > Do we need to set any of these options as well in this case
> > option BOOT_IDE=1
> > option IDE_BOOT_DRIVE=2
> > option ONE_TRACK=32
>
> well, rather than doing that, why don't you do a config with this config
> file and see how those options are set. And do some experimentation. There
> is no substitute for doing the work with this type of system -- you'll
> never learn anything otherwise.
>
> ron
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