Howto boot linux from harddisk if that option is not presented by firmware?
My system is a settop-box with embedded Linux. It runs on a powerpc-cpu and has an IDE harddisk, upon which I have installed a Debian distribution. I can chroot to that environment, but now I want to boot it directly from the harddisk.
The firmware only offers the following boot options: from flash (which loads the embedded system), from network or from serial-port. Serial-port I use for the console.
Is there a way to load the Linux system directly or indirectly from the harddisk, e.g. by loading a software bootloader via the network-boot and tell this bootloader to load the system (kernel) from harddisk? (I know how to set-up a network boot).
Pls keep in mind that this runs on a powerpc-cpu!
Thanks in advance for your help!
Tmaker
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