Re: linuxbios and bochs

2003-06-10 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
SONE, I had not been able to find any documentation on BOOT_IDE, so I tried using Eric's mkelfImage with etherboot and the ide_disk loader. The only problem I have there is it requires me to leave an empty chunk of disk at the beginning of the drive to place the elf kernel+initrd image. That

Re: linuxbios and bochs

2003-06-10 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, SONE Takeshi wrote: --initrd option to mkelfImage adds initrd to ELF boot image, which can be loaded by Etherboot or BOOT_IDE of LinuxBIOS. yes, I forgot to mention that with the new 1 MB 82802ac parts, I can put linuxbios, kernel and initrd directly into FLASH. ron

Re: linuxbios and bochs

2003-06-10 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
Ron, Those are intel flash parts correct? My initrd is 1.3MB right now. I'm not using it for libraries. I am using it to set up the root filesystem. It mounts hda1 which has a tarball containing the fs for the root fs. extracts that to a ramdisk, switches teh root device, and exits. I would

Re: linuxbios and bochs

2003-06-10 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Brian G. Rhodes wrote: Those are intel flash parts correct? My initrd is 1.3MB right now. I'm not using it for libraries. I am using it to set up the root filesystem. yes, you are too big. Is there an problem with kernel in flash, which mounts hda1 and does all those

Re: linuxbios and bochs

2003-06-10 Thread Brian G. Rhodes
The initrd is 3MB uncompressed. I require a few utilities (bash, echo, mount, tar, and umount). When the system boots and loads the initrd, it mounts hda1 which contains a root tarball. It then extracts the tar into the ramdisk. So it requires a few system libraries. c, ld, dl, rt (tar),

Re: linuxbios and bochs

2003-06-10 Thread ron minnich
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Brian G. Rhodes wrote: I think what I am going to do is just use linuxbios + etherboot to boot an elf image from the ide disk, and move the partitions down. you can do that, but another option is to have linuxbios+linux kexec an elf image from the disk. This allows you to

Re: linuxbios and bochs

2003-06-10 Thread Andrew Ip
Hi Brian, The initrd is 3MB uncompressed. I require a few utilities (bash, echo, mount, tar, and umount). Have you tried busybox and uclibc? You can safe quite alot storage area. -Andrew -- Andrew Ip Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:(852) 2542 2046 Fax:(852) 2542 2036 Mobile: (852)

Re: linuxbios and bochs

2003-06-10 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Brian G. Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030610 17:49]: The initrd is 3MB uncompressed. I require a few utilities (bash, echo, mount, tar, and umount). Some of the stuff is probably implemented in busybox, which is a lot smaller than bash, mount, umount,... Also, using dietlibc or uclibc might

romcc progress.

2003-06-10 Thread Eric W. Biederman
I have just implemented inline assembly and a better allocator in romcc. It will now use sse and mmx registers when you give it the appropriate -mcpu= option. I am not happy with the command line options but fixing them is easy. In addition the quality of the register allocations has improved

doc ipl image

2003-06-10 Thread roger
ok. wew. searched, read, reboots (did this in a loop for 10x's). i've gotten p5 images built and have been able to recognize and write to the DoC (many thanx to a kernel oops w/ devbios project and it's apperant incompatability with apm). After erasing the DoC, I'm realizing that I need an ipl

Re: doc ipl image

2003-06-10 Thread roger
Just a quick follow-up. I noticed that I had to add the following line in the config file: docipl /pathto/ipl.S ok. now for ipl.S (for a 440BX chipset?) -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]