Dear Debian-Mips Developers:
I'm in the process of writing a sibyl boot loader image to a compactflash device for use with a BCM91480b evaluation board, and I'd like to ask for assistance regarding an issue I'm facing with the installboot command. I have a compactflash card with two partitions, a sibyl boot partition and a partition for the root filesystem. The results of the fdisk command are as follows for the compactflash device. bcm91250a:~# fdisk /dev/hdb Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hdb: 1024 MB, 1024966656 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 124 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 1 8001 6 FAT16 /dev/hdb2 2 124 987997+ 83 Linux To ensure that the sibyl boot loader is correct, I've been using the sibyl boot loader from the Debian installation on a BCM91250a evaluation system. The results of the installboot command are as follows. bcm91250a:/usr/sbin# /usr/sbin/installboot -v /usr/lib/sibyl/sibyl.bin /dev/hdb1 Host is big-endian. Target is big-endian. Magic Number: 43465631424F4F54 Boot code offset: 1024 Boot code size: 130560 Header checksum: 67D8DE56 Header version: 1 Data checksum: E24136D0 Architecture info: 00000000 Word 59 = 43465631424F4F54 Word 60 = 0000000167D8DE56 Word 61 = 0000000000000400 Word 62 = E24136D00001FE00 Word 63 = 0000000000000000 Installing boot block Installing bootstrap program Done. /usr/lib/sibyl/sibyl.bin installed on /dev/hdb1 bcm91250a:/usr/sbin# When booting a BCM91480b evaluation system using the filesystem on the compactflash card, the following information is obtained. CFE version 1.3.3 for BCM91480B (64bit,MP,BE,MIPS) Build Date: Mon Nov 20 07:02:05 EST 2006 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005 Broadcom Corporation. ... Total memory used by CFE: 0x8FB89000 - 0x8FFFF420 (4678688) Initialized Data: 0x8FBECA40 - 0x8FBFBC90 (62032) BSS Area: 0x8FBFBC90 - 0x8FBFD410 (6016) Local Heap: 0x8FBFD420 - 0x8FFFD420 (4194304) Stack Area: 0x8FFFD420 - 0x8FFFF420 (8192) Text (code) segment: 0x8FB89000 - 0x8FBEC14A (405834) Boot area (physical): 0x0FB48000 - 0x0FB88000 Relocation Factor: I:EFF89000 - D:EFF89000 [ENVI] *** Autoboot: Trying device 'pcmcia1' file (pcmcia1,raw) Loader:raw Filesys:raw Dev:pcmcia1 File: Options:(null) Loading: ...........Failed. *** Autoboot failed. [CFE ] CFE> I'd like to ask for guidance with the installboot command. I'm using a reliable sibyl.bin file, so I'm curious about whether or not the installboot command is being used correctly. Thanks, Gary Smith
