Re: Loading EPICS/RTEMS Apps from local filesystem on VME board

[Daron Chabot <daron.chabot@gmail.com>]

Hi Jim,

Please send me (offline) your grub configuration file and a log of the messages you see (if you are able). Are you running linux on that board ?

AFAIK there is no RTEMS x86-based BSP with VME support. Having said that, I have done some preliminary work to put such a BSP together. Can you tell me the type of Ethernet cards are on that board?

Thanks.

-- dc

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Jim Eastman <Jim.Eastman@pro-dex.com> wrote:

Hello,

 

I'm working on setting up a XVME-661 (Pentium III 700 MHz; 256 MB RAM PC on a VME board) to run EPICS/RTEMS applications (and learning my way around both of those at the same time). I'm using RTEMS-4.10 and EPICS 3.14.12 in a mingw32 environment on a Windows 7 machine to build apps. I'm then copying the applications to the VME system hard drive and using GRUB to boot the application.

 

From what I've read of various getting started documents, it seems like the normal approach is to have an RTEMS-based system get networking information from a BOOTP server and then load application files from a TFTP server. However, I'm not able to run either of those servers, and since I have plenty of hard drive space on the VME system, I would like to able to load complete applications from the local filesystem.

 

I have tried booting the rtemsTestHarness app, as well a test app (generated using makeBaseApp), GRUB seems to able to load the application just fine but then get hung up on an infinitely looping "BOOTP call failed."

 

So I'm wondering if there's a simple way of either bypassing the BOOTP while loading the application, or somehow breaking out of that infinite loop and continuing to load the application.

 

Thanks in advance for any help or advice!

 

Regards,

Jim Eastman

 

 

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