README.filo_in_etherboot revision 677833bc953b6cb418c701facbdcf4aa18d6c44e
Moved from FILO into Etherboot, yhlu add boot from SATA disk and move usb boot framework
from Steven James baremetal in LinuxBIOS, also add the OHCI support.
1. refer to README.filo
but don't need to use make config.
2. CFLAG added
CONSOLE_BTEXT --- for btext console support
CONSOLE_PC_KBD --- for direct pc keyboard support
CONFIG_FILO --- It will make main call pci_init
3. to make:
make bin/filo.zelf
or
make bin/tg3--filo.zelf
You can not use filo and ide_disk at the same time.
Some input for boot:
boot from BIOS ROM area
4G-128K
mem@0xfffe0000
4G-512K
mem@0xfff80000
boot from suse
hda2:/boot/vmlinuz initrd=/boot/initrd ro root=/dev/hda2 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200
for suse install from CD
hdc:/boot/loader/linux initrd=/boot/loader/initrd ramdisk_size=65536 splash=silent showopts console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200
boot from RH
for RH install from CD
hdc:/isolinux/vmlinuz initrd=/isolinux/initrd.img expert nofb acpi=off devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=65536 console=ttyS0,115200
for serial ATA support (using port1 and port2 only)
1) if your kernel think SATA as SCSI
hde2:/boot/vmlinuz initrd=/boot/initrd ro root=/dev/sda2 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200
2) if your kernel think SATA as normal IDE
hde2:/boot/vmlinuz initrd=/boot/initrd ro root=/dev/hde2 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200
for usb support
uda1:/ram0_2.5_2.6.5_k8.2_mydisk7.elf
Yinghai Lu yhlu@tyan.com
to do:
add menu to filo boot