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Re: PC redboot doesn't work for me - 2.0b1
- From: Nick Garnett <nickg at ecoscentric dot com>
- To: "Larry Harmon" <harmon at hrdcorp dot com>
- Cc: "eCos discussion" <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 24 Mar 2003 10:00:29 +0000
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] PC redboot doesn't work for me - 2.0b1
- References: <001701c2f194$6eed1440$6601a8c0@goodyear>
"Larry Harmon" <harmon at hrdcorp dot com> writes:
> I am unable to make redboot work from the 2.0b1 release. I am building the
> PC redboot, from the template and importing the redboot_FLOPPY.ecm. I have
> a standard motherboard with an Intel etherfast card. A 2.0a release
> works!
>
> When I to boot the floppy I see on the target pc screen:
>
> .......BA2!
>
>
> Has anyone else been able to run this redboot?
>
I just built it here and had no problem at all.
The BA2! indicates that there is an error while reading a sector from
the floppy disk. The BA is the error code from the BIOS encoded A=0,
B=1 etc. So this is error 0x10.
I don't have any documentation here for BIOS error codes, so I cannot
help interpret this. However, most errors at this stage are a result
of a corrupt floppy disk -- a damaged sector or a loss of formatting
info. Two things you can try: do a low-level format of the disk, or
just try a different one.
--
Nick Garnett eCos Kernel Architect
http://www.ecoscentric.com/ The eCos and RedBoot experts
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