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July 1, 2005, 12:54 pm
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Hello,

Does anybody have any experience with downloading linux to a target
via (using Red Boot) the serial port?

I don't have my ethernet hardware working yet, but I would truly like
to see linux boot.

Questions:

1) Where in memory should I download linux?

2) Where should I download the root filesystem?  How does linux know
where it is?

Thanks,
 Mike


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Re: Redboot serial download of linux -- help!
Hi Mike,
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pretty much anywhere.

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you can put the filesystem anywhere too, but you then need to tell the kernel
where
to find it using the initrd= boot arguement.

regards,


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