[LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios FILO VxWorks

Juergen Beisert juergen127 at kreuzholzen.de
Fri Apr 6 14:17:42 CEST 2007


On Friday 06 April 2007 13:22, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > I have a success to boot the "bootrom" or the "VxWorks" immediately after
> > FILO. However, after booting my "bootrom" I cannot boot VxWorks image
> > from the "bootrom" on the same flash. I do have success booting VxWorks
> > from a flash connected to another IDE controller.
>
> what is "bootrom"?

As I remember: The bootrom is a shrinked VxWorks that's responsible to load 
the final VxWorks from any source (including network, IDE etc.). It contains 
a 16 bit part to be loaded by the BIOS. The final VxWorks is 32 bit only.

Juergen




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