Mikael Halvarsson wrote: >Hi, > >I want to flash LinuxBios into the standard shipped flash part (256Kb) on a >MS-7308ET board but i'm somewhat confused about the flashing process ... >I've followed the steps in the HOWTO and successfully built LinuxBios. But >now to the problems. > >* What file should I flash into bios after building??? I have tested to >flash misc files like. linuxbios.rom, linuxbios.strip ... and I used the >util in the flash_and_burn directory but it just caused the computer to >enter reboot madness. >
If you are going with any current HOWTO in CVS tree, there won't ve any file you can flash to a flash. These files are for DoC. > >* There are some utilities that I dont know what they do eg. makerom, >mkflashimg, mkelfImage. Should I use any of them to produce a flash image? > No. > >* As what I understand the Linux kernel cannot fit into a standard 256Kb >standard flash part, so how do I get LinuxBios to load it from a IDE Flash >disk? Should I embedd some sort of bootloader into the flash rom or? > Yes, > >Sorry to bother you with these newbie questions, but it seems to be the only >way :) > I just commited some config file to generate 'romimage' for LinuxBIOS + Etherboot and suitable for 256KB flash. Please check out. Ollie >
