for the archvies/faq: how to get BOOT_IDE to work
steven james
pyro at linuxlabs.com
Tue Nov 26 07:14:00 CET 2002
Greetings,
That looks like a feature that never got completed. The linker script
creates an array of configured streams, but hardwaremain is only looking
at the first stream in the array. I should have seen that in your
config! I probably missed it because I usually boot from ROM and the
config option looked 'natural in there'. Sorry about that.
G'day,
sjames
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> This may be obvious to the software authors, but to mere peons like myself
> this will save aggravation. :-)
>
> In order to get BOOT_IDE to work, you must (obviously) "option BOOT_IDE=1" in
> the little-c config file.
>
> However, from what I can gather, there can only be one stream configured.
> Streams are places to get elf images from: rom, tftp, ide, floppy and so on.
>
> So "option BOOT_ROM=0" must be present, and further, "option
> USE_GENERIC_ROM=0" must also be present, or the rom stream is enabled,
> effectively removing the IDE stream. I think.
>
> Perhaps Eric can elaborate a little bit, but with what I've written here I am
> able to have the IDE system initialized and used to get the ELF image to run.
> No actual kernel loading yet, but at least I am on the right track now. :-)
>
> Regards,
> Andrew
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