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MIPs bootloader with HDD support

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

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Gary
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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

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Robert Kaiser                     email: rkaiser AT sysgo DOT com
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