On 2011-10-12, abhishek srivastava <just_abh...@yahoo.co.in> wrote: > hi i had successfully build redboot package for i386 PC (vmware) > hardware, for startup type as "grub". i do not have floppy drive i my > laptop and could not ue RAM as redboot is still to be installed. > > now in redboot_install/bin i got redboot.elf. what to do with that. > how could i use it to see redboot prompt on vmware (ubuntu installed). > > please give some clear and detailed explanation.
Here's how I do it using Qemu: http://www.panix.com/~grante/eCos-on-QEMU.html You should be able to extrapolate from that to using vmware. Here's another document on using Qemu that boots from a floppy image instead (I chose CDROM because some of my apps won't fit on a floppy): http://www.codeconfidence.com/technote-0002.shtml -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! LBJ, LBJ, how many at JOKES did you tell today??! gmail.com -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss
