[ECOS] n00b PC booting questions

[Steve West]

We found a good solution to the IDE/PC boot problem as follows. This uses a 
2 stage boot process.

Using win/98 format a usb flash device with system, this just prevents the 
use of a floppy.
Write a real mode level 2 bootloader to read eCos from IDE to memory.
Sys the IDE disk installing a partition table and level 1 boot loader. 
(freeDOS has a good sys example)
Copy level 2 boot loader to IDE disk.
Disk will now boot level 1 that loads level 2 that loads eCos.
Be sure to build eCos with a GRUB not RAM load.

Steve
>
> (thanks again for the GRUB support, that is really good stuff and if the 
> worst comes to pass I can use it as a workaround)


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