No one can tell me whether or not it is possible to boot a TS-7250 from
the PC-104 CF daughter card or not?
Please - help me out here.
--Jeff
Jeff Cunningham wrote:
>
> Hi;
>
> A few weeks ago a friend of mine bought a TS-7250, with a USB
> flash-stick preloaded with Debian Linux. He subsequently discovered that
> it is not possible to boot from the USB device, so he then bought a
> TS-RF2-CF board with a 1G CF preloaded, again, with Debian. We just
> spent the afternoon trying to figure out how to get it to boot from the
> CF daughter board without succeeding.
>
> I have a TS-7200, which has the on-board CF. I thought that the same
> boot procedures which work on mine would apply to his system as well.
> But there are differences between the boards. One of the first things we
> noticed is that RedBoot's load command on his 7250 does not have the
> 'disk' option, where as on my 7200 it does. It appears like the boot
> loader on his 7250 does not know how to talk to an IDE device. Is there
> another way to boot from his CF card via the daughter board? Or is there
> a way to put a new boot loader in his flash which does know how to boot
> from his daughter board?
>
> We read the daughter board manual pretty closely:
> http://www.embeddedarm.com/Manuals/rf2-cf-info.htm
> <http://www.embeddedarm.com/Manuals/rf2-cf-info.htm>
>
> The first paragraph mentions needing to install or upgrade the IDE
> drivers, but his would be in the kernel, and would not come into play
> until after the the boot process was underway and would require the IDE
> driver beforehand, so we don't see how this will solve anything.
> Nevertheless, we downloaded the modules and tried to insmod the into the
> system after booting up the TS-linux kernel, just to see if we could at
> least mount the CF card.
>
> insmod ide-core.o options=\"ide1=0x118,0x116,33\"
> insmod ide-detect.o
> insmod ide-disk.o
>
> None of these commands works with the '.o' suffix. But omitting that,
> the first one works; the second one sort of works, but gives an IRQ
> conflict error message, and the third one works. Lsmod shows all three
> active afterwards, but there is no /dev/hd* device to mount. We tried
> the other two IRQ possibilities with the same result. There is only the
> RF2-CF daughter board connected to the TS-7250, so its hard to see what
> the IRQ conflict would be. He did by it with the real-time clock option.
>
> On the chance that the ide driver is built into the TS-linux kernel, we
> also tried loading the IDE drivers with in-kernel support, but this also
> failed:
>
> $ exec -c "console=ttyAM0,115200 root=/dev/hda1 ide1=0x118,0x116,33"
> exec: 1: -c: not found
>
> What does he need to do to be able to boot to debian Linux off his
> TS-7250?
>
> Any help would be vastly appreciated.
>
> --Jeff
>
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