ROM-Size-Problem
Thomas Leidenfrost
leidenfrost at corscience.de
Tue Jul 20 05:59:00 CEST 2004
okay, I've got a nullmodem-cable here, but how can I see if there is any
output?
my graphics-controller is integrated in the Cx5530A-chipset. I think it
should be supported, or am I wrong?
Thx, Tom
Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> * Thomas Leidenfrost <leidenfrost at corscience.de> [040720 11:57]:
>
>>Filling the Linuxbios.rom to 256 kB with zeros (dd if=/dev/zero bs=1k
>>count=192 >> linuxbios.rom) or with itself three more times (cat
>>linuxbios.rom linuxbios.rom linuxbios.rom linuxbios.rom > bios256.rom)
>>doesn't work, the monitor displays nothing (is framebuffer neccessary
>>for that?!). So, how to make the generated linuxbios.rom will be 256 kB?
>
>
> Please try connecting a serial nullmodem cable and see if you get any
> output there. What graphics card does the system have? LinuxBIOS is
> unlikely to initialize your video correctly, except on a very small
> number of boards with onboard graphics (or with testbios)
>
> linuxbios.rom is only the linuxbios image without the payload it seems.
> I have in mind that V1 was not as solid with payload handling as V2 is,
> but I may be wrong..
>
>
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