[ECOS] RedBoot & eCos IDE Boot?

[Iztok Zupet]

On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 04:47, BN wrote:
> Is it possible to boot RedBoot on an IDE hard drive?
>  
> Is it possible to boot eCos on an IDE hard drive?
>  
> I have tried using Lilo, but all I get is a few random characters on the
> screen and the machine freezes.

It's possible, using the RedBootDoC patch from
<http://www.vsr.si/ecos/patches>, by selecting DISK instead of FLOPPY as
a startup option.
The patch code allows booting only from the first partition, which must
be a primary one.

MBR is not included there, but it works if You do an fdisk /MBR.

Regards
iz





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