RE: giving the user a boot option

2003-02-06 Thread Steve M. Gehlbach
> > > Grub offers some booting > > > flexibility that I need, and since it is C code, also is more easily > > > customized for some other things I need to do during boot (embedded > > > application). > > > > Linuxbios + Etherboot, surely? > I missed this reply earlier because my mail server died :

mkelfImage-2.2 and the kernel exec source code, and the elfboot toolkit

2003-02-06 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Eric a number of questions have arisen. First of all, in the readme files for the kernel exec source code, you recommend that I obtain the elfboot toolkit. The suggested reason, is that its because there is a client for the kexec function inside it. Obviously the make elfI

Re: Tiger MPX

2003-02-06 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Jarmo Tulonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hello > > I just got it to work. My problem was that I was generating > the kernel image with mkelf-linux and not with mkelfImage. Yes mkelf-linux works but it does not understand LinuxBIOS at all... > (Actually I did try also mkelfImage at some

[commit] Support for Intel se7501cw2

2003-02-06 Thread steven james
Greetings, I've just committed support for the 533MHz FSB version of Intel Clearwater and the E7501 northbridge. It's not well tested yet, but it does etherboot the kernel. G'day, sjames -- -steven james, director of research, linux labs ... .

Re: giving the user a boot option

2003-02-06 Thread Eric W. Biederman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > My point was that I am only focused on booting linux, and so the legacy BIOS > > is just flash baggage after linux gets going. Grub offers some booting > > flexibility that I need, and since it is C code, also is more easily > > customized for some other things I nee

Re: Tiger MPX

2003-02-06 Thread Jarmo Tulonen
On Thursday 06 February 2003 22:20, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Jarmo Tulonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hello > > > > I'm still struggling with the Tyan Tiger MPX (aka S2466). > > I tested this time with the programs I downloaded from > > ftp.lnxi.com, compiling from the tar packet and using >

Re: Tiger MPX

2003-02-06 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Jarmo Tulonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > > I'm still struggling with the Tyan Tiger MPX (aka S2466). > I tested this time with the programs I downloaded from > ftp.lnxi.com, compiling from the tar packet and using > etherboot 5.1.5 as payload. It loads the kernel from the > tftp server

[ANNOUNCE] mkelfImage-2.2

2003-02-06 Thread Eric W. Biederman
mkelfImage 2.2 is a bug fix release, available at: ftp://ftp.lnxi.com/pub/src/mkelfImage/mkelfImage-2.2.tar.gz rpm -bb mkelfImage-2.2.tar.gz builds a binary rpm. In some cases when working with the latest versions of etherboot the i386 stub code would get confused and use the wrong table address

Re: Booting VxWorks from LinuxBios

2003-02-06 Thread Eric W. Biederman
"Ronald G. Minnich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > if you folks figure out vxworks from linuxbios and write it up I can put > it in the FAQ For this and possibly for the plan9 support I will except patches to mkelfImage. As of version 2.0 it has an infrastructure that allows for adding code for

Re: more on objcopy

2003-02-06 Thread Eric W. Biederman
steven james <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings, > > The size in the ldscripts is controlled by ROM_IMAGE_SIZE in the mainboard > config file. With care, it should be changable, but there is a good bit of > magic in there (I'm trying to get rid of some of that in the boards I > have, but it

Re: Tiger MPX

2003-02-06 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
I have not yet bought an MPX, but when I get one I will give this a try. Steve James is the expert on this i think. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Tiger MPX

2003-02-06 Thread Jarmo Tulonen
Hello I'm still struggling with the Tyan Tiger MPX (aka S2466). I tested this time with the programs I downloaded from ftp.lnxi.com, compiling from the tar packet and using etherboot 5.1.5 as payload. It loads the kernel from the tftp server but when it should jump to the kernel, it just dies. I a