From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Anders Blomdell <anders.blomdell@control.lth.se>
Cc: linuxppc embedded <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Booting Linux from an already running linux
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 15:48:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030115224857.GB21424@opus.bloom.county> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8CD0F4AF-23B1-11D7-98E2-0003931C2BFA@control.lth.se>
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 10:05:50AM +0100, Anders Blomdell wrote:
>
> Now that I have a Linux running with networking on a PrPMC800 running as
> NON-MONARCH, I wonder if anybody knows about a program that can start a
> fresh linux kernel from the filesystem. The reason I need this, is that the
> PrPMC800 PPC-Bug does not support network booting for NON-MONARCH operation
> (neither have I found any alternative that does), and downloading megabytes
> over the serial line is not very tempting.
The other option here, is to put a kernel into FLASH. Google around
for bugboot, but IIRC, it's just a matter of 'make zImage', and then
normal mojo for writing a binary into the FLASH to boot, ensuring you
use zImage.bugboot, not zImage.prpmc800, or whatever.
--
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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2003-01-09 9:05 Booting Linux from an already running linux Anders Blomdell
2003-01-09 9:18 ` Wolfgang Denk
2003-01-15 22:48 ` Tom Rini [this message]
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