[ECOS] IDE, FAT, and VMWare

[Peter Dennett]

The IDE disk can not have an MBR, just the file system image.  Make this
under VMWare using LINUX: 

/sbin/mkdosfs -I -F 16 -i deadbeef -n FAT16 -v /dev/hdb

Regards,

Peter Dennett       Office: 281 334 3800
www.padsoft.com       Cell: 713 899 6100
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org [mailto:ecos-discuss-
> owner@ecos.sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Donald Walton
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 10:08 AM
> To: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
> Subject: [ECOS] IDE, FAT, and VMWare
> 
> I am trying to do my preliminary development on a Linux platform running
> VMWare.  The platform is i386 pc.  I have a virtual machine configured
> with 2 virtual IDE hard drives, /dev/hda/ & /dev/hdb/.  The first is
> formatted as a ext2 file system; the second as a FAT file system.
> /dev/hda/ has GRUB installed and allows me to boot redboot.
> 
>  From my Linux platform, I use Insight to connect to redboot on the
> virtual machine and download my eCos target application, which is
> suppose to use /dev/hdb/ for file storage.
> 
> I am having trouble recognizing /dev/hdb/ as having a FAT file system.
> The eCos application does see /dev/hdb/,   but /dev/hdb/ does not get
> mounted.
> 
> Before I go down this path very far, I am curious whether other users
> have had a similar configuration working.  If so, what problems did they
> encounter?
> 
> Thanks,
> Don Walton
> 
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