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Re: RedBoot and other companies OS products
- To: Gregg C Levine <drwho8 at worldnet dot att dot net>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] RedBoot and other companies OS products
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:18:09 +0100
- Cc: ecos - discuss <ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
- References: <001301c13e75$e82c5600$3460fea9@who>
Gregg C Levine wrote:
>
> Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers
> I suppose I should really read the faq for this list, but here goes with my
> question: Can RedBoot be used to boot a product such as Lineo's Embedix?
> They use lilo for the job, I suppose it's Linux thing, but for my use, I
> want have RedBoot do the booting of the product.
(Assuming this is x86)
Yes it can be done, although you must still have a BIOS - no-one has so far
been willing to fund a version of RedBoot that can boot Linux with no BIOS,
even though it should be comparitively easy.
But you would need to add an implementation of the "exec" command.
Jifl
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