[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefan Reinauer) wrote: > Has anyone worked with booting via ide?
Well, if you want to do it the easy way, just create a special partiton for the Linux kernel, and then do something like this: option USE_ELF_BOOT=1 option BOOT_IDE=1 option IDE_OFFSET=0x7e00 option IDE_DELAY=1 dir src/pc80/ide I've added two parameters to the IDE driver, IDE_OFFSET which tells the driver where to start reading, and IDE_DELAY to decrease the initial delay before accessing the IDE disk. I'm using dd to put an elfImage (the same elfImage normally used with etherboot) on /dev/hda1. On my Compact Flash, /dev/hda1 starts at offset 0x7e00. This way I could test LinuxBIOS on a board with only Compact Flash and a ROM chip. It would be a lot nicer to have a bootloader such as grub that understands the ext2 filesystem, but this was good enough for some quick tests. /Christer -- "Just how much can I get away with and still go to heaven?"
