MIPs bootloader with HDD support

Aug 16, 2004 1 Replies

Hello,



I'm looking for a bootloader that supports the MIPs architecture and HDD support. If anyone knows of such a bootloader (GPL or otherwise) I'd be very grateful to hear of it.



The system I am building will have a bootloader that resides in flash memory. When the system powers on and runs the bootloader (out of flash) it will uncompress and initialise the kernel and the resulting apps, all of which reside on a HDD.



The obvious choices like GRUB and Lilo don't support MIPs. All the others I can find that do support MIPs don't have HDD support.



Thanks,



Gary


Have you looked at U-boot

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yet?

AFAIK, it supports _some_ MIPS platforms and it has code for harddisk booting. I suspect that you will have to put in some effort to get it actually working on your particular platform, but it should be a good point to start.

Rob

Robert Kaiser email: rkaiser AT sysgo DOT com SYSGO AG http://www.elinos.com Klein-Winternheim / Germany http://www.sysgo.com

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