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 > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > -- -------------------------steven james, director of research, linux labs ... ........ ..... .... 230 peachtree st nw ste 701 the original linux labs atlanta.ga.us 30303 -since 1995 http://www.linuxlabs.com office 404.577.7747 fax 404.577.7743 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios