Alistair Riddoch wrote:
> Reed Wade writes:
> >
> >
> > ok, imagine I want to install elks on
> > an 8086 machine which runs dos from
> > rom and has a small flash memory disk
> > set up to act like a dos disk.
> >
> > http://www.jkmicro.com/summaryV25.html
> >
>
> This machine looks really interesting. I would quite like to get my hands
> on one and see if I could get ELKS on it.
Looks almost like a PC/104 form-facter board that is used in robotics and
wearable computing. No PC/104 connectors, though,
> > I imagine adding msdos filesystem support
> > we be the first step... Then a loadlin sort
> > of thing.
>
> Steffen Gabel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has a package on his homepage that
> loads elks from msdos
>
> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/4535/
>
> but it requires an image of low memory obtained by booting with a floppy
> which obviously cannot be done on this machine. You may be able to find a
> way to get the loader to work without such an image. Have a look at the
> code and see what it does.
There is a page, http://www.erols.com/rld/, where the author has a boot code
system that boots Minix from a Flash card on an HP 200LX-- the same concept as
what you're trying to do. There's no source available, but maybe you could
entice the author to giving you a peek.
