Re: Booting Linux from Flash

1999-04-14 Thread Brendan Simon
I would certainly like to get a flash filesystem driver. I'm not sure if it is the same thing you are talking about. I want to boot linux on an powerpc embedded system which has no hard disk. I do not want to use lilo. I imagine that I would have write a simple bootloader to get the kernel boo

Re: Booting Linux from Flash

1999-04-14 Thread John VanLoon
I have a driver for a card from advantech. I do not believe that much would have to be done to have it usable on a FLASH BOOT BLOCK device. You would just need to fill in the details and perhaps add support for multiple partitions if you need it (an offset to the beginning is already supported

Re: Booting Linux from Flash

1999-04-13 Thread Naushit Sakarvadia
Hi ... I am also working with same MPC 860 but we are using some custom OS. I am also eager to get answer to these questions but I can anser some of them. Please read my answer to corrosponding qsts.. and if you have got any input from other mailing list please share with me.. > I w