From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux as Bootloader
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:18:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m11uvto7qa.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH9NwWfGA7jLWDZcN=DfGN5H2g=dt6U8SBxAX_wJAk6MKKfZAA@mail.gmail.com> (Christian Gmeiner's message of "Mon, 5 Sep 2011 10:24:13 +0200")
Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using the linux kernel in combination with busybox and a separate
> bootloader app to
> startup a x86 based embedded device. As the used BIOS does only do
> basic hw init, we
> used Linux as a bootloader. Our custom BIOS starts the bootloader
> kernel located in BIOS
> flash. If the kernel and userland is ready our boot application
> searches for the productive kernel
> and executes it via kexec.
>
> Now I run in some troubles as I need to be able to boot a MSDOS
> application stored on
> an usb stick. I have tried grub4linux but I am not able to boot from
> the usb stick - even I
> see the grub command line.
>
> Are there some creative/working solutions for my problem?
There has been some success using a modified bochs bios on real hardware
in the context of coreboot. That should be loadable from linux and
usable on your setup. Avoiding the DOS requirement is probably a more
certain path, getting DOS going is probably more fun.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-06 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-05 8:24 Linux as Bootloader Christian Gmeiner
2011-09-05 12:33 ` el es
2011-09-06 18:18 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2011-09-11 21:18 ` Geoff Levand
2011-09-16 11:02 ` Christian Gmeiner
2011-09-19 2:22 ` Geoff Levand
2011-10-21 23:07 ` Geoff Levand
2011-09-12 6:20 ` James Courtier-Dutton
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