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Message-ID: <m11uvto7qa.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:18:05 -0700 From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@...il.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux as Bootloader Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner@...il.com> writes: > Hi all, > > I am using the linux kernel in combination with busybox and a separate > bootloader app to > startup a x86 based embedded device. As the used BIOS does only do > basic hw init, we > used Linux as a bootloader. Our custom BIOS starts the bootloader > kernel located in BIOS > flash. If the kernel and userland is ready our boot application > searches for the productive kernel > and executes it via kexec. > > Now I run in some troubles as I need to be able to boot a MSDOS > application stored on > an usb stick. I have tried grub4linux but I am not able to boot from > the usb stick - even I > see the grub command line. > > Are there some creative/working solutions for my problem? There has been some success using a modified bochs bios on real hardware in the context of coreboot. That should be loadable from linux and usable on your setup. Avoiding the DOS requirement is probably a more certain path, getting DOS going is probably more fun. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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