[ECOS] RedBoot Woes

[Jesper Skov]

On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 16:42, Charles Schweizer wrote:
> 
> 
>    I am stuck on the first step to getting eCos running on my laptop.  I 
> downloaded redboot.bin and threw it on a floppy.  Trying to boot my 
> laptop from this floppy brings up boot messages and a redboot prompt, 
> but after this the system becomes entirely unresponsive.  If I have 
> hyperterminal connected from my main machine, the same text shows up 
> there, but I still can't type commands or get responses.  Booting my 
> main machine from the same floppy works fine (I can type redboot 
> commands and get appropriate responses), so it's not the disk.  Any 
> ideas on what the problem might be, or how I could go about isolating it?
> 
> Laptop specs: Netlux NX-7321, AMD mobile Athlon 4 w/ VIA chipset
> Main machine: Dell Precision 330, P4

There has been problems with RedBoot on machines with only one serial
port. I don't remember the details - look through the mailing list for
the solution (which is probably to rebuild RedBoot).

Jesper


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