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Re: download Application to load redboot on an Intel x86 PC
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: "Mukund JB." <mukundjb at esntechnologies dot co dot in>
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>,Frank Pagliughi <fpagliughi at mindspring dot com>,Marcin Glogowski <marcin dot glogowski at interia dot pl>,Manfred Gruber <gruber dot m at utanet dot at>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 07:52:37 -0600
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] download Application to load redboot on an Intel x86 PC
- References: <4EE0CBA31942E547B99B3D4BFAB34811610585@mail.esn.co.in>
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 19:12 +0530, Mukund JB. wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have worked on the Cirrus EBD9312 board for a while & got some
> experiences working with redboot Boot Monitor.
>
> Now, I have requirement of running the Redboot on the X-86 PC platforms.
>
> I could find the redboot pre-build binary for the x86 PC platform in the
> RedBoot binaries and support files section.
>
> http://ecos.sourceware.org/ecos/boards/redbootbins/x86pc/
>
> Can some one please suggest me where can I find the download.exe to load
> the redboot.bin file to the TARGET X-86 PC platform?
RedBoot is not typically installed directly into FLASH on an x86 PC
as it is on the Cirrus boards. The common case is to boot RedBoot
from a floppy or some other media.
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