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>RedBoot supports
two serial ports and an Intel i82559 based ethernet card (for example an Intel
EtherExpress Pro 10/100) for communication and downloads. The default serial
port settings are 38400,8,N,1.</P
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>The following RedBoot configurations are supported:
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>RedBoot running from a boot floppy disk installed
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>redboot_ROM.ecm</TD
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similar to the following line:</P
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>Insert this floppy in the A: drive of the PC to be used as a target
and ensure that the BIOS is configured to boot from A: by default. On reset,
the PC will boot from the floppy and be ready to be debugged via either serial
line, or via the ethernet interface if it is installed.</P
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>Unreliable floppy media may cause the write to silently fail. This
can be determined if the RedBoot image does not correctly
boot. In such cases, the floppy should be (unconditionally) reformatted
using the <B
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>All selectors are initialized to map the entire 32-bit address space
in the familiar protected mode flat model. Page translation is not used.
RAM up to 640K is mapped to 0x0 to 0xa0000. RAM above 640K is mapped
from address 0x100000 upwards. Space is reserved between 0xa0000 and
0x100000 for option ROMs and the BIOS.</P
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>The names of configuration files are listed above with the
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