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RE: Slow serial transfer to redboot
- To: "'Jonathan Larmour'" <jlarmour at redhat dot com>,"'Peter Blair'" <peterb at turnpikeglobal dot com>
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] Slow serial transfer to redboot
- From: "Trenton D. Adams" <tadams at theone dot dnsalias dot com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 14:43:11 -0600
- Cc: <ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
redboot_FLOPPY.ecm? I never even heard of this. Maybe that's one of my
problems because my own builds of RedBoot for the PC don't work either.
-----Original Message-----
From: ecos-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com
[mailto:ecos-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan
Larmour
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 2:33 PM
To: Peter Blair
Cc: Trenton D. Adams; ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Slow serial transfer to redboot
Peter Blair wrote:
>
> Yes, I've been using GDB for the image transfer with no luck-- I've
> tried
> rebuilding redboot with the repositiory supplied with the 1.3.1
> configuration tools for Windows no avail-- the redboot template
doesn't
> seem
> to be available.
>
> I CVS'd the repository on Monday, but haven't been able to get v1.3.1
of
> the
> Configuration utility to recognize the current repository.
You have to use the tools from
http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/anoncvs.html
or the v2 config tool.
> I'm
> currently
> experimenting with version 2 of the configuration tool with Monday's
> snapshot of the repository but am still running into difficulties...
>
> I've successfully compiled both redboot.bin & redboot.elf files for
i386
> target, and dd'd them to a floppy, but upon bootup of the target the
> machine hangs with a blank screen. I didn't change any of the default
> settings for the redboot template.
Did you remember to import the redboot_FLOPPY.ecm file? Without that, it
won't know how to boot!
Jifl
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