Etherboot and PC386 BSP Question

Joel Sherrill joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com
Thu Apr 10 22:44:32 UTC 2008


Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am dusting off an old Versalogic Bobcat
> 486 PC104 system to use as a test platform.
>
> We have generated an Etherboot floppy using
> rom-o-matic.net and the bobcat is fetching it.
>
> I have tried the elf executable and the output
> of bin2boot but no luck so far.
>
> What format does that boot?
>   

Apparently it can boot the elf file.  Thank
you qemu for including an Etherboot ROM.

 /usr/local/bin/qemu -cpu 486 -m 8 -boot n -tftp /tftpboot/ -bootp 
//bobcat.img

So my elf file runs virtually but when I
run it on the bobcat, it loads the image,
jumps to it, and then the screen goes
blank except for a hint that something
is out of sync.

Any ideas?
> Any chance the display it is working with the
> bin2boot image and the graphics mode is switching
> to something the 17" LCD can't display?
>
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> joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com        On-Line Applications Research
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