Re: Booting sandpoint from ide disk

Instant need for booting from ide disk seem to have gone away :( Dink32 does
not start anymore at all. When I restart the machine nothing comes through
the serial cable (settings are correct). I have not touched to any board
switches. Red leds on the altimus board are as follows:

RAM: not active
ROM: not active
stat: not active

Others are active.

On sandpoint main power and standby power -leds are active.

Actually when I recycle the power I get just one totally random character to
minicom (does not happen everytime).

Any ideas?

//lauri

On Thursday 05 September 2002 18:47, Mark A. Greer wrote:

Lauri Ojantakanen wrote:

quoted

Hi,

does anyone have a good solution for booting sandpoint X3 (cpu 7410,
altivec supported) from ide hard disk? Dink32 does not seem to support
anything like that and ppcboot does not seem to support that CPU.

If you want to stay with DINK, you can put the zImage in flash and set DINK
up to automatically (or not) jump to where you put it.  The zImage will
relocate itself, uncompress the kernel (in the proper location) and then
boot.  With the correct cmdline, you can use an IDE disk partition for your
root filesystem. Unless you hack DINK, you won't be able to boot a kernel
actually sitting on the IDE disk, you have to put it in flash or get it
into memory some other way first.  As others have already said, you can
always use PPCBoot.

Mark

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