From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:40:32 +0100 (BST) Received: from dmz.mips-uk.com ([194.74.144.194]:51718 "EHLO dmz.mips-uk.com") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20024316AbXIUJkY (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:40:24 +0100 Received: from internal-mx1 ([192.168.192.240] helo=ukservices1.mips.com) by dmz.mips-uk.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1IYewj-00045x-00; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:37:13 +0100 Received: from stanmore.mips.com ([192.168.192.169]) by ukservices1.mips.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1IYewf-0003Zw-00; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:37:09 +0100 Message-ID: <46F390C5.402@mips.com> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:37:09 +0100 From: Elizabeth Oldham User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050331) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: KokHow.Teh@infineon.com CC: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Friedrich-Nachtmann.External@infineon.com Subject: Re: YAMON booting Linux kernels from malta board harddisk.... References: <31E09F73562D7A4D82119D7F6C1729860254C469@sinse303.ap.infineon.com> In-Reply-To: <31E09F73562D7A4D82119D7F6C1729860254C469@sinse303.ap.infineon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MIPS-Technologies-UK-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MIPS-Technologies-UK-MailScanner-From: beth@mips.com Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 16623 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: beth@mips.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips KokHow.Teh@infineon.com wrote: > I read of MIPSboot that is loaded into the MBR which is then > read from YAMON to boot a selection of kernels from the harddisk. MIPSboot is my rather hacked bootloader that goes with the MIPS/TimeSys Linux distro, and does not as yet sit in the MBR...one day perhaps. Anyway, it sits at the beginning of the first partition on disk (which should not be formatted with a filesystem and can be very small), and then loaded with a YAMON command line like: YAMON> disk read hda 3f ff 800d0000; go 800d0000 MIPSboot version 0.3 Loading /boot/mb.conf . ok Choose a kernel image to boot: (0) aprp-2.6.19-glibc root=/dev/hda3 (1) smtc-2.6.19-glibc root=/dev/hda3 ... You can put that command line in the "start" environment variable to autostart it. I've dropped source and binary tarballs together with an example conf file on our ftp site: ftp://ftp.mips.com/pub/tools/software/timesys/extras/mipsboot/ If you have any queries about it send me email. Beth