Michelle Konzack wrote:
Hello, I have a ARM based computer (yeah, then LH7A404) and it is working fine with a BSD derivat (gotten the 32 MB Image from the net) and also the "Self-Made-Computer" is working if I am code it with my Hands and Feets in ASM. :-) But I do not like to use BSD and try to code a couple of MBytes by Hands and Feets and want to install Debian on it. OK, I have some modified scripts and bootstraped a full ARM installation on my 1 GByte "SanDisk Ultra II" plus a Cross-Compiled ARM Kernel with all modules included. But HOW can I write now my Bootsektor?
The concept of a "boot sector" is x86 bios-think. Forget about it entirely now that you're programming in the Real World. :)
If your bootloader can read a VFAT-formatted CF card (apparently it can), then build up a Linux kernel zImage file, put it on the card. Then load that file into RAM somewhere, and jump to the address of the first byte (make sure it's word-aligned!).
You have to set r0, r1 and r2 to some values that are described in a bootloaders-related document on the arm.linux.org.uk website. Once you've got that, and you jump to the zImage file, the kernel starts running.
Note: The ARM-PCB has currently no USB port or any other
PATA/SATA ports... only the CF-Card slot and I
have to build the rest in the next weeks/months!
Not a problem. b.g. -- Bill Gatliff bgat@billgatliff.com