Hardware Test Run

In order to perform a quick test of the hardware, a small Linux distribution was loaded on the CF disk and booted from the MOPSlcdLX board. There are many small Linux distributions available, so I decided to use the SLAX Frodo Edition.

The following steps were done on the host computer to install SLAX Frodo Edition to the CF disk, which is represented by the device node /dev/sda1:

cd /tmp
wget ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/slax/SLAX-5.x/special-editions/slax-frodo-5.1.8.iso
mkdir /slax
mount -o loop -t iso9660 /tmp/slax-frodo-5.1.8.iso /slax
cd /slax
./make_disk.sh /dev/sda1

The CF disk was placed onto the MOPSlcdLX board and booted successfully. This step provided some confidence that the memory, hardware detection and BIOS all works properly out of the box.

MOPSlcdLX BIOS

Figure 3. MOPSlcdLX test run booting SLAX Frodo Edition.