Any EPIA etherboot success stories?

[David Hendricks]

EPIA howto? I must've overlooked it in my extensive Googling.

I tried fff80000 because when I run flash_rom, it finds my SST28SF040A at
that address. I did notice, however, that you and Sone used fffc0000 for
the zkernel_start address. fff80000 does not seem to work at all, so I
guess the Epia specifically looks for that address.

My fault for not keeping the epia.config file exactly the same as it was
used in the minicom log. That's what I get for being a packrat and keeping
so many of them sitting around. The config I'm currently using is exactly
the same, but using fffc0000.

As for my etherboot version, it was originally downloaded using CVS on
June 25. I'm using version etherboot-5.1.

> On Thursday 10 Jul 2003 23:20, Mark Wilkinson wrote:
>> Hi David,
>> 	If you mean has anyone managed to boot a Via EPIA using etherboot as
>> the
>> payload, and loading the kernel via (no pun) tftp, then yes.... but then
>> I
>> wrote it all down in the EPIA howto :-)
>>
>
> oops, hit the wrong key there...
>
> what seems to be the problem that you're having ? your epia.config, the
> zkernel_start address looks odd. My configs have this option commented out
> or
> set to 0xfffc000
>
> what version of etherboot are you using ?
>
>
> Regards
> Mark.
>
>>
>> Regards
>> Mark.
>>
>> On Thursday 10 Jul 2003 23:22, David Hendricks wrote:
>> > I see a lot of people here have gotten LinuxBIOS working with the Via
>> > EPIA using an IDE device, but has anyone managed to get it working
>> using
>> > etherboot to boot a kernel over a network? I'm a hopeless newbie and
>> have
>> > been struggling with this for some time. I have links to logs, my
>> > payload, and my config below (Trying to keep the list archives tidy).
>> >
>> > I had gotten etherboot working with the PCM-5823s earlier and compared
>> > the minicom log with that of my Epia. The only real obvious
>> discrepency I
>> > see is the entry point. The Geode entered at 0x00094000 (606,208),
>> while
>> > the Epia is trying to enter at 0x00020000 (131,072).
>> >
>> > I'm using CVS versions of Etherboot and LinuxBios. However, I haven't
>> > been able to update in the past one or two weeks due to Sourceforge's
>> > problems so I might have missed an important patch.
>> >
>> > Links
>> > EPIA minicom log (High verbosity):
>> > http://www.flagen.com/~sc/linux/funstuff/epia-dave
>> > My Rhine payload:
>> > http://www.flagen.com/~sc/linux/funstuff/via-rhine-ebcvs.elf
>> > My config file: http://www.flagen.com/~sc/linux/funstuff/epia.config
>> > Geode (Elfboot part only):
>> > http://www.flagen.com/~sc/linux/funstuff/geode-elfboot-dave
>> >
>> > TIA
>> > --David
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