RE: Is possible Linux on flash memory?

2004-05-08 Thread Steven James
Greetings, Yes, a kernel processed with Eric's mkelfImage. I don't have any filesystem code in the loader, so rather than mounting a filesystem on the USB storage device, you need to partition it and then dd the kernel image to the first partition. e.g. if your USB device shows up as sdb, dd

re: Is possible Linux on flash memory?

2004-05-08 Thread Yinghai Lu
Does it work now? If it works with raw device, after merge it into filo, it should use file system FAT etc. Regards YH -- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Steven James : 200458 5:18 : Gregg C Levine : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : RE: Is possible Linux on flash memory? Greetings,

re: Is possible Linux on flash memory?

2004-05-08 Thread Steven James
Greetings, It works on USB drives that do SCSI over bulk transport. For other drives, more work will be needed, but I don't have one of those. It can also enumerate hubs like the iMac keyboard. G'day, sjames -steven james, director of research, linux labs ...

RE: Is possible Linux on flash memory?

2004-05-08 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine It should work indeed. However, I've got a strange series of problems that might be related to my distribution's choice of versions, and I'll post the script output here in this message. However, it will be a long one. I think some of these problems might be related

RE: Is possible Linux on flash memory?

2004-05-08 Thread Steven James
Greetings, It looks like the IDE stuff is the result of things changing in the linuxbios source since baremetal was checked in. I'll have to look at the usb problems. My setup was with gcc 2.95. I'll try it on my newer gcc 3.2.2 (RH 9 ish) and see what's up. G'day, sjames -steven james,