From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 01:01:30 -0800 Received: from router.isratech.ro ([193.226.114.69]:43275 "EHLO router.isratech.ro") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 01:01:05 -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 eBF90S622222; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 11:00:29 +0200 Message-ID: <3A3A4C13.9FAD7FB8@isratech.ro> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 11:51:32 -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: Harald Koerfgen CC: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, Brady Brown Subject: Re: YAMON. References: 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 Hi Harald, Thanks. In principle I want to do such a thing and to run linux from ROM if this is possible and I saw that it is possible. Now I read the documentation and I hope to manage to setup this kind of kernel. Thanks again. Nicu Harald Koerfgen wrote: > On 14-Dec-00 Nicu Popovici wrote: > > 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 ? > > The linux-vr tree has a nice feature called XIP (eXecute In Place). This allows > to prepare a kernel to run directly out of ROM. > > http://linuxvr-org > > if that's what you're looking for. > > -- > Regards, > Harald