Instant need for booting from ide disk seem to have gone away :( Dink32 does not start anymore at all. When I restart the machine nothing comes through the serial cable (settings are correct). I have not touched to any board switches. Red leds on the altimus board are as follows:
RAM: not active ROM: not active stat: not active Others are active. On sandpoint main power and standby power -leds are active. Actually when I recycle the power I get just one totally random character to minicom (does not happen everytime). Any ideas? //lauri On Thursday 05 September 2002 18:47, Mark A. Greer wrote: > Lauri Ojantakanen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > does anyone have a good solution for booting sandpoint X3 (cpu 7410, > > altivec supported) from ide hard disk? Dink32 does not seem to support > > anything like that and ppcboot does not seem to support that CPU. > > If you want to stay with DINK, you can put the zImage in flash and set DINK > up to automatically (or not) jump to where you put it. The zImage will > relocate itself, uncompress the kernel (in the proper location) and then > boot. With the correct cmdline, you can use an IDE disk partition for your > root filesystem. Unless you hack DINK, you won't be able to boot a kernel > actually sitting on the IDE disk, you have to put it in flash or get it > into memory some other way first. As others have already said, you can > always use PPCBoot. > > Mark > > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
