[ECOS] Boot from DOS?(!)

Gary Thomas gthomas@ecoscentric.com
Wed Aug 14 08:28:00 GMT 2002


On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 08:15, Chris Paulson-Ellis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there an easy way to boot eCos from DOS?
> 
> I have a customer that wants to move an old system from DOS to eCos, but we
> don't have enough boards to be able to flash redboot onto one of them.
> Therefore, I would like to keep the existing DOS boot for the time being and
> somehow bootstrap eCos from a DOS exe. Does anyone have any ideas?

Booting from floppy isn't good enough?

Reminder: eCos is only set up to run on 80386 and newer CPUs
(just in case we're talking about some old 80286 or worse)

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