Booting RTEMS

[Joe Samuel]

OK .. I had specified the configuration as 'other'.
But you used grub for booting the virtual machine? or
is there some other way to boot the vm in to RTEMS? 
--- "Moran, Chris" <cmoran at emergent.com.au> wrote: > I
have VMWare 3.1 running RTEMS apps.  Build the
> system with a "linux"
> configuration.  I had trouble with other configs,
> but this works just
> fine for me.
> 
> Hope this helps 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Samuel [mailto:sjoe2 at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, 14 November 2002 11:00 PM
> To: rtems-users at oarcorp.com
> Subject: Re: Booting RTEMS
> 
> Hi all,
>     I'm happy to tell you that I have successfully
> booted my i686 machine in to the helloworld and many
> other small executives using grub using the 'root 
> xxxx', 'kernel xxxx' and 'boot' commands. Still I
> wonder why the method mentioned in my last mail
> didn't
> work out. It seems that grub is not able to read
> from
> my floppy disk after booting.
>      I have also installed VMware, but still don't
> know how to boot rtems using it. I tried the same
> grub
> boot floppy. But when I tried to set the hard drive
> as
> root file system grub complained of an invalid
> partition table. It seems that the format of the
> vmware virtual harddrive is confusing grub .. I will
> have to study the vmware help files in detail to
> find
> it out.. 
>  Any other ways with VmWare than using grub boot
> floppy?
> thanks for your support and suggestions,
> Joe
> 
> --- Joe Samuel <sjoe2 at yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi all,
> >    I tried to make a boot disk using as described
> in
> > the mail
> >
>
http://www.rtems.com/rtems/maillistArchives/rtems-users/1999/december/ms
> g00075.html
> > 
> > using grub 0.92. But on the second step mentioned
> in
> > the instructions(making the second floppy
> bootable)
> > the command failed with an error 'file not found'.
> I
> > couldn't interpret nothing but that grub fails to
> > read
> > the contents of the second floppy.. I tried
> > switching
> > to grub 0.4, the one mentioned in the mail, but
> that
> > too didn't help. Can anyone tell me what's wrong? 
> >  
> > I'm using Redhat 7.3 and have heard that using the
> > grub coming with the it can help in building the
> > disk.. and right now I'm trying how to do that..
> > 
> > 
> >  btw, I'v heard that we can load rtems on a VMware
> > virtual machine... How to do that? 
> > thanks in advance,
> > Joe.
> > 
> >            
> >     
> > 
> > 
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