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Creating A Vxworks Bootrom Without Using A Floppy Drive

This document provides steps to create a Vxworks bootrom without using a floppy drive by instead using a virtual floppy image. It involves using Vmware Workstation to create a virtual machine with a floppy drive, then creating a dummy .flp floppy image file. The Vxworks workbench is installed in the virtual machine and environment paths are configured. The format, mkboot, copy, and chkdsk commands are used to format the virtual floppy drive and create a bootrom.bin file that can be used to boot without a physical floppy drive.

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Creating A Vxworks Bootrom Without Using A Floppy Drive

This document provides steps to create a Vxworks bootrom without using a floppy drive by instead using a virtual floppy image. It involves using Vmware Workstation to create a virtual machine with a floppy drive, then creating a dummy .flp floppy image file. The Vxworks workbench is installed in the virtual machine and environment paths are configured. The format, mkboot, copy, and chkdsk commands are used to format the virtual floppy drive and create a bootrom.bin file that can be used to boot without a physical floppy drive.

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Creating a Vxworks bootrom without

using a floppy drive


Things you need before starting

¾ Vmware Workstation
¾ WinImage{virtual floppy software}
¾ Vxworks workbench installed inside Vmware.

Vmware recognizes floppy image with extension “.flp”,so we are going t create a dummy image
with a text file in it .Lets take x.txt file with file size of 0kb and inject it into a floppy image.

Select 1.44 MB as your floppy drive size and inject that file , then choose file>save as and then
save it as some “test.flp” . Now your floppy image is ready!

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Start Vmware and configure your floppy drive in vmware .

Do not forget to choose “Connect at power on”. Now start the virtual machine , I am using
windows xp here.

Before to proceed add the following to PATHS to environment variables , make sure that u add
semicolon after each path.

My workbench is installed in C:\WindRiver-GPPVE-3.6-IA-Eval\ , so replace the path


underlined with red color with your path.

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Now open the command promt and type in the following command

format a:

When asked for volume label just hit enter and the format should be over with few seconds , so
now you have your floppy drive formatted .

Now type in

cd “C:\WindRiver-GPPVE-3.6-IA-Eval\vxworks-6.6\target\config\pcPentium”

Once your in the target /config the rest is routine just type

mkboot a: bootrom.bin

and hit enter if everything goes fine you will be getting bootrom.sys file in your floppy drive.If
its non contiguous you can follow the below procedure.
C:\WR\VxWorks\host\x86-win32\bin> vxsys a:
VxSys 1.6 (c) Wind River 1993-2002
Boot sector installed OK.

Now copy the boot image to the floppy. For .bin images use copy

C:\WR\VxWorks\target\config\pcPentium> copy bootrom.bin a:bootrom.sys

For all other images use objcopypentium

C:\WR\VxWorks\host\x86-win32\bin\objcopypentium -O binary --gap-fill=0

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bootrom a:bootrom.sys

Now verify that the file is contiguous. Non contiguous images will not boot.

C:\WR\VxWorks\target\config\pcPentium> chkdsk a:bootrom.sys

Similarly you can do it for other files also .

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