Re: [ECOS] redboot on i386 serial ports

[Nick Garnett <nickg at ecoscentric dot com>]

Reed Lawson <reedlawson@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm very green to ecos and I'm very stuck. I tried to
> use the 
> "stock" redboot.bin on a tiny PC (TS-3300) where
> the A drive is emulated by flash. Well, I used
> "rawrite3" to put the .bin file on the "floppy".
> It seems to try to boot. I see lots of dots .....
> but then it stops.

So far so good.

> 
> I hunted around and found some list mail suggesting
> to rebuild with the enet driver off as a test.

That's well worth trying initially. 


> So, I'm
> trying.
> I followed the destructions here: 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/docs-latest/ref/rebuilding-redboot.html
> I loaded the i386 template and selected the redboot
> package. Then I imported the 
> ./packages/hal/i386/pc/v2_0/misc/redboot_FLOPPY.ecm
> file. but the PC serial drivers are all grayed out.
> :-(
> why? I looked all over to see if there was a box 
> somewhere I missed, but I can't find it.
>

RedBoot does not use the serial drivers. It uses some lower level IO
routines in the HAL. 


> On this "pc" there is no "display" just 2 serial ports
> and an enet port. I need to contol redboot from a 
> serial port to start with.

RedBoot usually just used the serial ports and the ethernet. The
display stuff it really just there as a convenience for when running
on conventional PCs. You can disable it if you want to.


-- 
Nick Garnett                    eCos Kernel Architect
http://www.ecoscentric.com      The eCos and RedBoot experts


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