10Non-Dos Operating System Installation - syslogic IPC/NETIPCFW-1A User Documentation

IPC/NETIPCFW-1A: User Documentation
DOC/NETIPCFW-E; V3.0
10 Non-DOS Operating System Installation
Specific operating systems (with the exception of the Embedded DOS-ROM) are not supported
by Syslogic. However, the necessary steps for a drive A: based installation of a non-DOS
operating system shall be explained here shortly. Note that you must make sure to have the
legal right to load and run the selected operating system on the target, i.e. to have a correct
license. For the installation please proceed as follows:
1. Prepare the Embedded BIOS for a non-DOS boot drive:
– Run the NETIPC BIOS Configuration Program on your host-PC
– Read-in the BIOS image file
Edit the BIOS-image
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Enter the Disk I/O and Booting menu
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– Select drive A: as first boot drive
Save options using <F1> key
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Return to main menu via <ESC> key
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– Write BIOS image file
– Exit (Note: you have now generated a new binary BIOS image)
2. Create a binary image of a non-DOS boot disk for the ROM-drive A: of the target:
– change to directory C:\FBCUBE\NETIPCFW\NONDOSOS
Insert a system formatted 1.44 MByte 3.5" OS boot diskette with all required
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files included into the floppy drive A: of your host-PC
– Run the DOS batch file MAKEDRVX.BAT
– Verify, that the files you need do not exceed the maximum ROM-drive size of
704 kBytes. Do that by examining the binary disk image file DRIVE_X.BIN
with a HEX-viewer tool. At the end of the file you should encounter only values
indicating unused (formatted) disk space.
The non-DOS boot ROM disk image is now ready in the file DRIVE_X.BIN
3. Download the new BIOS and bootable ROM-drive into the target:
Connect the target COM1 port via a Null-Modem cable to the COMx-port of
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your host-PC (x = port number)
– Run the NETIPC boot loader program
– Power-on the target in the boot-load mode (see DOC/IPC_NETIPC)
Enter INITx after the boot loader program prompt (x = host-PC COM port
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number)
– Wait for connection to target (Message „Target connected at .....")
Enter EBIOS (or EBIOSX) to download the new Embedded BIOS
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Wait for error-free completion (Note: takes several seconds, do never
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interrupt !)
Enter NDRIVE_X to download the bootable ROM-drive A:
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Wait for error-free completion (Note: takes several minutes, do never
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interrupt !)
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