From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 23:21:08 -0800 Received: from router.isratech.ro ([193.226.114.69]:20746 "EHLO router.isratech.ro") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 23:20:41 -0800 Received: from isratech.ro (calin.cs.tuiasi.ro [193.231.15.163]) by router.isratech.ro (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id eBE7K9815583; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:20:10 +0200 Message-ID: <3A38E314.A22393DD@isratech.ro> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 10:11:16 -0500 From: Nicu Popovici X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.15-2.5.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brady Brown CC: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: YAMON. References: <3A37B34B.69C1BF2@isratech.ro> <3A37ACC9.82476B96@ti.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing Hello , Thanks . Now I have a much bigger problem. I have to try to start this ATLAS board without a HDD and without ethernet. At reset it should give me a login prompt which I have to see throught the console. Can anyone help me ? Regards Nicu Brady Brown wrote: > Nicu Popovici wrote: > > > Hello , > > > > Does anyone know how can I do to start a Linux on a mips board ( ATLAS ) > > without using YAMON. I just want to turn on the mips and to boot in > > Linux . Is that possible ? > > > > Regards, > > Nicu > > It is possible. Look in Atlas Users Manual Sec 5.2 . Dip switch S1-1 > controls booting from either Monitor Flash or System Flash. If you boot > from System Flash then the monitor is effectively removed. You would of > course have to have your own boot-up code, PCI enumerator, hardware init, > kernel loader, kernel image, etc. in the System Flash all hooked to the > reset vector for this to work. > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Brady Brown (bbrown@ti.com) Work:(801)619-6103 > Texas Instruments: Broadband Access Group > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~