If you feel lucky, you can also reserve space on your disk for the kernel -
either in a separate partition, or outside the area used by your current
partitions. The YAMON 02.02 or later can read the kernel directly from disk
and execute it.
I do this on my Malta board with one disk.
/Hartvig
Dan Temple writes:
>
> I guess you're installing as per:
>
> ftp://ftp/pub/linux/mips/installation/redhat7.1/INSTALL
>
> (If not, you might want to upgrade to that version).
>
> YAMON can't read the disk file system, so you have to TFTP the kernel to
> memory from a remote filesystem, and then run it. The instructions are in the
> above file under "Booting linux on the target".
>
> The latest version (2.02) of YAMON can read and write blocks from an IDE
> device (not a filesystem) so you could install a CompactFlash card and use
> that to store the kernel if you don't want to TFTP each time.
>
> There is also a $start environment variable if you want to auto-boot.
>
> /Dan
>
> Nitin wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I have a very basic query. I have a MIPS Malta board. I attached a IDE
> > hard disk to it and installed linux as per the instructions. At the end
> > of the installation, system rebooted and control gone to the board
> > monitor program(Yamon). How can I get the linux prompt? Do I need to
> > write an application program which will read boot sector from hard disk,
> >
> > store it in memory and pass on control to that particular location?(If
> > yes, is such application already available?) Or is there a other way of
> > doing it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nitin
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