[ECOS] How to let i386 pc boot from Hdd

[Teng Chee Wan Philip]

Hi, Roman

Can you elaborate?  Like John, I am also encountering this problem.  I am 
thinking of putting the application, data etc into the same harddisk and get it 
to boot up and run.

Thanks a lot.

regards,
Philip Teng
DSO National Labs

Quoting Roman  Khvatov <roman@lab.sun.mcst.ru>:

> Hi!
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'd like to let i386 pc boot from hard disk drive.
> > I have an image of ecos application that can boot from floppy.
> > Can I use this image to boot from hdd?
> 
> No. You have to modify the boot device parameters in boot procedure
> (device number from 0 to 80h, sectors per track and head counters)
> After this you can boot from one particular HDD, which parameters you
> use to modify boot code.
> 
> If you need to boot not only from one HDD and use it for file system
> too
> you need to rewrite boot procedure completly or use some external boot
> utility.
> 
> Roman.
> 
> PS. I've made 2 such utility - one for boot eCos application from
> MS-DOS,
> and second to boot eCos application from MBR (application still must
> be
> an MS-DOS file).
>