MVME5100 boot from flash

MVME5100 boot from flash

[Stefano Coluccini]

Hi all,
  I have a MVME5100 and i can use Linux on it booting from the network, now
I'm trrying to boot from flash but without success. I have thought to simply
put the image that is good for the network boot in the flash bank with
pflash, but it doesn't work. Anyone knows what i have to do or where i can
found documentation about this topic ?

Thanks,
Stefano.

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Re: MVME5100 boot from flash

[ghannon]

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Stefano,

     I'm not sure this is the only approach, but this is what I use.

(See attached file: bugboot.tar.gz)

     There is a readme in here that describes the process.
     You basically have to build the board's residual data into the
image that gets flashed.

     There may be tidbits left out of the readme, so email me if
this doesn't work as written.

Gary Hannon
CSPI





"Stefano Coluccini" <s.coluccini@caen.it> on 12/19/2002 04:03:03 AM

To:   "Linuxppc-Embedded" <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
cc:    (bcc: Gary Hannon/CSP)
Subject:  MVME5100 boot from flash





Hi all,
  I have a MVME5100 and i can use Linux on it booting from the network, now
I'm trrying to boot from flash but without success. I have thought to
simply
put the image that is good for the network boot in the flash bank with
pflash, but it doesn't work. Anyone knows what i have to do or where i can
found documentation about this topic ?

Thanks,
Stefano.

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! Stefano Coluccini         ! CAEN SpA - Computing Div.  !
! Via Vetraia, 11           ! 55049 Viareggio (LU)-ITALY !
! Tel. +39 0584 388 398     ! Fax +39 0584 388 959       !
! s.coluccini@caen.it       ! www.caen.it/computing      !
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Re: MVME5100 boot from flash

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 10:03:03AM +0100, Stefano Coluccini wrote:

>   I have a MVME5100 and i can use Linux on it booting from the network, now
> I'm trrying to boot from flash but without success. I have thought to simply
> put the image that is good for the network boot in the flash bank with
> pflash, but it doesn't work. Anyone knows what i have to do or where i can
> found documentation about this topic ?

What .config are you using to generate a working kernel for this
machine?  IIRC, CONFIG_ALL_PPC won't generate a flash-bootable image by
default (look at arch/ppc/boot/simple/Makefile if you need to use this,
and not CONFIG_MVME5100), but CONFIG_MVME5100 will generate a
'zImage.bugboot' which can be put into flash and booted.

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