RTEMS on x86 PC

Cláudio Silva claudiodcsilva at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 15:30:16 UTC 2012


Hi,

I think you need to define the kernel option in grub before issuing boot:
> kernel (hd0,0)/hello.exe
> boot

Regards,
Cláudio

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Fered <a_Fered at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi;
> The documents you said are old. (They point to legacy GRUB)
> Then I read some manuals and did following steps but could not boot RTEMS.
> 1- Installing GRUB on a USB disk in Linux:
>        a. sudo mkfs.msdos /dev/sdb
>        b. sudo mount /dev/sdb /media/MULTIBOOT
>        c. grub-install --force --no-floppy --root-directory=/media/MULTIBOOT \
>           /dev/sdb
> 2- Copy samples to the disk:
>        I copied hello.exe
> 3- Boot system using the USB disk
>        After booting, in GRUB's commanline, I wrote this command:
>        boot (hd0)/hello.exe
> And the output of this command was:
> no loaded kernel
> (When I issue 'ls (hd0)/' I see the file)
>
> I built RTEMS for i386 archtecture and PC386 board. I tested hello.exe by
> pc386 script, that is run qemu and it worked.
>
> Are these steps are correct?
> Thanks.
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yes you can test RTEMS in your PC. You just have to build RTEMS for
>> the i386 architecture and pc386 (or later) board support package. Once
>> you have a RTEMS application built you can use GRUB to boot it. (if
>> you have grub already installed on your PC you just have to change the
>> "kernel=" parameter to point to an RTEMS application)
>>
>> For more information on how to build RTEMS and a sample application:
>>
>> http://rtems.org/onlinedocs/doc-current/share/rtems/html/
>> http://wiki.rtems.org/wiki/index.php/Quick_Start
>> http://wiki.rtems.org/wiki/index.php/Example_Application_Compiling
>>
>> For more information about the boot:
>>
>> http://git.rtems.org/rtems/tree/c/src/lib/libbsp/i386/pc386/HOWTO
>> http://wiki.rtems.org/wiki/index.php/Pc386
>> http://wiki.rtems.org/wiki/index.php/QEMU
>>
>> Cláudio
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:03 AM, harryxiyou <harryxiyou at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Fered <a_fered at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >
>> > Hi there,
>> >
>> >> I'm newbie and want to test RTEMS on my PC.(on real hardware)
>> >> Is it possible?
>> >
>> > I think it is ok for us to test on our PC. I am now searching the way,
>> > too. I recommend some useful links for you. If you find the way tell me
>> > please.
>> >
>> > [0] http://wiki.rtems.org
>> > [1] http://www.rtems.org/
>> > [2] http://rtems.org/onlinedocs/doc-current/share/rtems/html/
>> > [3] http://git.rtems.org/
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Thanks
>> > Harry Wei
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > rtems-users mailing list
>> > rtems-users at rtems.org
>> > http://www.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/rtems-users




More information about the users mailing list