Re: Booting from IDE

[Hartvig Ekner <hartvige@mips.com>]

If you feel lucky, you can also reserve space on your disk for the kernel - 
either in a separate partition, or outside the area used by your current
partitions. The YAMON 02.02 or later can read the kernel directly from disk
and execute it.

I do this on my Malta board with one disk.

/Hartvig


Dan Temple writes:
> 
> I guess you're installing as per:
> 
> ftp://ftp/pub/linux/mips/installation/redhat7.1/INSTALL
> 
> (If not, you might want to upgrade to that version).
> 
> YAMON can't read the disk file system, so you have to TFTP the kernel to memory from a remote filesystem, and then run it. The instructions are in the above file under "Booting linux on the target".
> 
> The latest version (2.02) of YAMON can read and write blocks from an IDE device (not a filesystem) so you could install a CompactFlash card and use that to store the kernel if you don't want to TFTP each time. 
> 
> There is also a $start environment variable if you want to auto-boot.
> 
> /Dan
> 
> Nitin wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > I have a very basic query. I have a MIPS Malta board. I attached a IDE
> > hard disk to it and installed linux as per the instructions. At the end
> > of the installation, system rebooted and control gone to the board
> > monitor program(Yamon). How can I get the linux prompt? Do I need to
> > write an application program which will read boot sector from hard disk,
> > 
> > store it in memory and pass on control to that particular location?(If
> > yes, is such application already available?) Or is there a other way of
> > doing it.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Nitin