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Re: Processor Issue with i386/Redboot?
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: Michael Trozzo <trozzo at arcor dot de>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 15 Oct 2003 12:37:40 -0600
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Processor Issue with i386/Redboot?
- Organization: MLB Associates
- References: <001901c39349$beffd9c0$0c00a8c0@LAPTOP>
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 12:25, Michael Trozzo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wrote last week about my problems creating a floppy boot image, and
> have fortunately managed to work it out. Apparently, the dd command
> doesn´t like it when you try to output to a network share...either that
> or use rawrite (thanks, Denis).
>
> Anyway, onto the next step of my journey. I attempted to boot through
> the floppy on a pentium 150, with the floppy set as first in the boot
> sequence. It appears not to be completing the boot process. I get a
> series of dots on the screen, then a blinking cursor. After that stops,
> nothing else happens. I´ve tested this box with a Win98 boot floppy,
> the Windows CDROM, and on the hard drive (which had been freshly
> formatted before installing 98), and everything boots up normally.
>
> I then attempted to boot on a 1.4 GHz Pentium III with thw same floppy,
> and after a few seconds, I got the RedBoot welcome message on screen.
> Does anyone know why this would be happening? I´d really like to avoid
> having to use the PIII box, since my wife uses that for her work, and
> obviously my having Redboot up would take her out of action.
>
I've seen this before - not all PC hardware works the same :-) The
problem I observed had to do with resetting the IDE hardware.
Try disabling the IDE interface like this:
% ecosconfig import no_IDE
% ecosconfig tree
% make
Where the file "no_IDE" looks like this (sans "---" lines):
------------------------------------------
cdl_component CYGPKG_REDBOOT_DISK {
user_value 0
};
------------------------------------------
If that doesn't help, try adding some messages during the initialization
of RedBoot (in .../redboot/current/src/main.c)
--
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates
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