On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:12:19AM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:57:34AM +0500, M Arshad Khan wrote: > > hii > > is there any way of loading the RedBoot from the USB Stick instead of > > Floopy Drive. have any body experienced such things or have any idea? > > Looking Forward > > This is more an issue of Grub, not redboot itself. If the USB stick > looks like a bootable disk, i expect it will work. > > Andrew >
That works. I haven't old i386 PC, I have modern one, but Andrew's suggest exited me and I tried to run the RedBoot on the modern PC. Build the redbot image for pc target mkdir ~/tmp/pc_rb cd ~/tmp/pc_rb ecosconfig new pc redboot ecosconfig import $ECOS_REPOSITORY/hal/i386/pc/current/misc/redboot_GRUB.ecm ecosconfig tree make -s ls -lR install/bin install/bin/: total 492 -rwxr-xr-x 1 sg sg 495854 May 7 14:03 redboot.elf All rights. I did insert my USB pen. Ubuntu mounts this storage to /media/disk, and I just did copy a future `kernel' there: Install the image cp install/bin/redboot.elf /media/disk umount /media/disk At the end, I appended these 3 lines to my GRUB's menu title RedBoot (pc target) root (hd1,0) kernel /redboot.elf Note: `hd0' is my SATA HDD and I used the `hd1' reference to boot from my USB memory stick. You have to set up the hd's number correctly. Usually, it's enough to look at `dmesg' output to resolve this issue. I rebooted my PC and saw the expected choice in the GRUB's menu. I did choose new menu's item... and saw that the RedBoot did start. It's pity that I haven't old i386 PC. It looks like I won't got the RedBoot's networking on my hardware. But GRUB runs the redboot image from USB pen without any problems. Thanks Andrew, --Sergei -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss
