I'm trying to find documentation on getting a Motorola 5100 board to boot from a hard drive. What I spefically am wondering is do I need a "boot loader", or is that built into the kernel?
I can build a kernel (2.4.11) which works and until now have been using a ROMFS, built into zImage.initrd.pplus. I am currently able to netboot or boot from flash. I am thinking I can rebuild this kernel root=/dev/sda7 and I should be able to get it to use the hard drive as /. My question is can I just put that new kernel on a bootable partition on the hard drive and get PPCbug to boot from that partition, or do I need some form of a bootloader? (yaboot, lilo, other) I do realize I should be able to flash this kernel and then have the board boot from flash and use the drive as /. Is this the more common approach? If there is a good write up on this I would be glad to read about it, I just haven't found it yet. I do have the PPCbug manuals. Thanks, Gary Hannon CSPI ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
