Wolfgang,

I think I understand the solution. But I'm not sure.

Are you saying. Create a partition which is not formatted with a file system and whose sole purpose is to contain a kernel image. Then, modify the diskboot command to read the contents of that partition into memory and execute.

Regards, Mark.

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Wolfgang Denk wd@denx.de To: Mark.Lightfoot@sita.aero Sent by: cc: u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net wd@denx.de Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] Booting Linux from hard drive

06/16/2003 05:32 PM

Dear Mark,

in message OF2C06A494.5C13BDD5-ON85256D47.0073E4F0-85256D47.0075138E@sita.aero you wrote:

Can anyone suggest a method to have U-Boot boot Linux from a hard drive

on

a PowerPC architecture?

You have to adapt the existing IDE/ATA code so it can talk to your IDE controller. Then you can use the "diskboot" command to load a kernel image from a disk partition.

I'm in the process of completing a port of U-Boot to the Motorola

PrPMC800

which is uses a PowerPC MPC7410 processor. My goal is to have U-Boot

boot

Linux from a hard drive instead of from flash. I've just completed the

Works fine on a couple of boards already.

PCI/IDE support for this. I thought I could have U-Boot load Lilo or

Grub.

What the h*ll do you need lilo or grub for? You got U-Boot! :-)

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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