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RE: IDE, FAT, and VMWare
- From: "Peter Dennett" <pdennett at padsoft dot com>
- To: "'Donald Walton'" <dwalton at dramail dot com>, <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:05:40 -0600
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] IDE, FAT, and VMWare
- Reply-to: <pdennett at padsoft dot com>
The IDE disk can not have an MBR, just the file system image. Make this
under VMWare using LINUX:
/sbin/mkdosfs -I -F 16 -i deadbeef -n FAT16 -v /dev/hdb
Regards,
Peter Dennett Office: 281 334 3800
www.padsoft.com Cell: 713 899 6100
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org [mailto:ecos-discuss-
> owner@ecos.sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Donald Walton
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 10:08 AM
> To: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
> Subject: [ECOS] IDE, FAT, and VMWare
>
> I am trying to do my preliminary development on a Linux platform running
> VMWare. The platform is i386 pc. I have a virtual machine configured
> with 2 virtual IDE hard drives, /dev/hda/ & /dev/hdb/. The first is
> formatted as a ext2 file system; the second as a FAT file system.
> /dev/hda/ has GRUB installed and allows me to boot redboot.
>
> From my Linux platform, I use Insight to connect to redboot on the
> virtual machine and download my eCos target application, which is
> suppose to use /dev/hdb/ for file storage.
>
> I am having trouble recognizing /dev/hdb/ as having a FAT file system.
> The eCos application does see /dev/hdb/, but /dev/hdb/ does not get
> mounted.
>
> Before I go down this path very far, I am curious whether other users
> have had a similar configuration working. If so, what problems did they
> encounter?
>
> Thanks,
> Don Walton
>
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