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eCos-booting prob, from floppy disk
- From: Samiran <samiran at ibextech dot com>
- To: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:42:33 +0530
- Subject: [ECOS] eCos-booting prob, from floppy disk
> Hi ,
>
> I am trying to make a eCos system where host is windows [ 386 pc] . I
> made the GNU binutils,gcc,gdb, for 386-pc
> successfully, then I am trying to make boot floppy in this way ,steps are
> 1) eCos Configuration Tool File->new
> 2) Build->Templates hardware-> i386 PC target
> Packages ->stubs
> 3)then save
> 4)build
> it is successful
>
> then according to the manual it is given that 1st check weather A: drive
> is mounted or not if it is then it would show like this
> \\.\a: /dev/fd0 user binmode
> if it is not listed then mount the floppy drive using the command
> dd conv=sync if=install/bin/gdb_module.bin of=/dev/fd0 then use
> that floppy for booting another floppy bootable machine.
> I checked it is not there,
> when I am doing this it is coming dd: /dev/fd0: No such file or
> directory
>
> then I mounted floppy drive by this command mount -f -b //./a:
> /dev/fd0
> after that it is showing like this
>
> D:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
> D:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
> c:\cygwin\tmp on /tmp type user (binmode)
> D:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
> \\.\a: on /dev/fd0 type user (binmode)
> C: on /C type user (textmode)
> d: on /d type user (textmode)
>
> then I applied that command
>
> dd conv=sync if=install/bin/gdb_module.bin of=/dev/fd0
>
> then it is showing like this
>
> 40+1 records in
> 41+0 records out
>
> I used that floppy to boot another PC which is floppy bootable .but it is
> not booting
>
> Then I tried in other way from command line getting the same result
>
> only problem is I can make boot floppy ,but any PC which is floppy
> bootable ,is not booting ?
>
> thanks
> can u have any solution so that I can proceed to solve these problem
>
> Regds.
>
> Samiran
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> Software Engineer
> Ibex Technologies Ltd.
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> India .
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