boot/simple in ROM?

Kent Borg kentborg at borg.org
Fri Apr 25 03:32:22 EST 2003


On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 01:13:35PM -0400, Dan Malek wrote:
> The other really nice thing about these bootloaders, compressed
> kernels, and attached initrd, is you can boot the identical image
> from all "devices."  For example, during development you can tftp
> load the image, get everything working, then place the exact same
> bits into a flash rom.  Simply jump to the first location of the
> image and it will boot from flash.

Yes, but disappointingly the ppc/boot/simple I am using (from 2.4
devel) won't run from ROM.  Is there a better boot loader I should be
using?

Thanks,

-kb

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