HI, I can confirm to you that booting from network and using a HD partition as root filesystem works correctly. I haven't tried yet to boot from HD, but I've read something interesting about this argument in the ppcbug manual at the GEVBOOT command and the PBOOT command.
I hope this can help you. Bye. +--------------------------------------------------------+ ! Stefano Coluccini ! CAEN Engineering srl ! ! Via Vetraia, 11 ! 55049 Viareggio (LU)-ITALY ! ! Tel. +39 0584 388 398 ! Fax +39 0584 388 959 ! ! s.coluccini at caen.it ! www.caen.it/computing ! +--------------------------------------------------------+ > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org > [mailto:owner-linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org]On Behalf Of > ghannon at cspi.com > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 5:31 PM > To: linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org > Subject: MVME5100 booting from SCSI disk > > > > 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/
