Disk Boot; Prerequisites; Booting Procedure - SMART Embedded Computing MVME2500 User Manual

2.3

Disk Boot

2.3.1

Prerequisites

You should have Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) hard disk with ext2 file
system loaded, and VxWorks image loaded to the ext2 file system
2.3.2

Booting Procedure

To boot VxWorks AMP using disk, perform the following steps:
1. Power up the MVME2500 board.
By default, it provides the U-Boot prompt.
2. Set the environmental variables at the U-Boot prompt.
setenv ipaddr <Board ip address>
setenv serverip <TFTP server ip address>
setenv gatewayip <Gateway ip address>
setenv netmask <Netmask>
Example:
setenv ipaddr 10.130.101.206
setenv serverip 10.130.101.216
setenv gatewayip 10.130.101.254
setenv netmask 255.255.255.0
3. Set the VxWorks boot image file name.
setenv vxbootfile vxWorks_00.st
4. Set the VxWorks bootline arguments.
setenv vxbootargs 'motetsec(0,0)10.130.101.216:vxWorks
h=10.130.101.216
f=0x80'
Parameters description:
motetsec(0,0) : ethernet interface 0 on cpu 0
10.130.101.216 : Host Machine IP
10.130.101.206 : Board IP
ffffff00 : Netmask
u=vxworks : Username on host machine
p=vxworks : Password for the above user in host machine
f=0x80 : File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
MVME2500 VxWorks 6.8 AMP User Guide (6806800M27C)
e=10.130.101.206:ffffff00 u=vxworks pw=vxworks
Booting VxWorks
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