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LinuxBIOS SDK

2. Installation


2.1 BIOS Selection Switch

There are 2 boot modes in the BIOS selection switch. If flash position is beingselected, it will start from the regular BIOS mode. If BIOS position is being selected, it will start from LinuxBIOS/DiskOnChip.


2.2 Installing Development Kernel

The latest development kernel can be found at http://www.cwlinux.com/download. For K7 type motherboards, select the athlon target. For PIII type motherboards,select the piii target. Then, following the intruction below to install the kernel.

For K7,
$ rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.17-CWLINUX_2.athlon.rpm
$ rpm -ivh kernel-source-2.4.17-CWLINUX_2.i386.rpm

For PIII,
$ rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.17-CWLINUX_2.piii.rpm
$ rpm -ivh kernel-source-2.4.17-CWLINUX_2.i386.rpm


2.3 Installing linuxBIOS packages

$ rpm -ivh linuxbios-source-cvs-020130.i386.rpm
$ rpm -ivh linuxbios-utils-cvs-020130.i386.rpm


2.4 Installing mtd utils package

$ rpm -ivh mtd-utils-cvs-20020129.i386.rpm


2.5 Installing linuxBIOS SDK package

$ rpm -ivh linuxbios-sdk-source-cvs-020301.noarch.rpm
$ rpm -ivh linuxbios-sdk-utils-cvs-020301.noarch.rpm


2.6 Directory Structure

After installing, all linuxbios source and sdk are located at /usr/src/linuxbios. The following shows where the tools are located:

/usr/src/linuxbios/
 buildroot/Place to build root filesystem
 buildrom/Place to build ipl, linuxBIOS and kernel images
 configs/Contains sample linuxBIOS configuration files


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