Configuration for motherboard

Andreas Bach Aaen (AH/TED) andreas.bach.aaen at ericsson.com
Wed Jan 12 21:45:00 CET 2005


Hi linuxbios developers,

I am new to this list and BIOS concepts in general. However I have worked with 
Linux for over 10 years, but I am sure you can learn me something new 
anyhow:-)

I have a motherboard which gives me the following output from lspci:
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0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. E7501 Memory Controller Hub (rev 01)
0000:00:00.1 Class ff00: Intel Corp. E7000 Series Host RASUM Controller (rev 
01)
0000:00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. E7000 Series Hub Interface B PCI-to-PCI 
Bridge (rev 01)
0000:00:02.1 Class ff00: Intel Corp. E7000 Series Hub Interface B RASUM 
Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB/ER Hub interface to PCI 
Bridge (rev 82)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Bridge (rev 
02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) UltraATA-100 
IDE Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus 
Controller (rev 02)
0000:02:1c.0 PIC: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 I/OxAPIC (rev 04)
0000:02:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 Hub PCI Bridge (rev 04)
0000:02:1e.0 PIC: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 I/OxAPIC (rev 04)
0000:02:1f.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 Hub PCI Bridge (rev 04)
0000:03:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet 
Controller (rev 03)
0000:03:02.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet 
Controller (rev 03)
0000:03:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet 
Controller (rev 03)
0000:03:03.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet 
Controller (rev 03)
0000:03:04.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1010 66MHz  
Ultra3 SCSI Adapter (rev 01)
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The superIO chip is NSC PC87417 which don't seen to be supported, but I only 
need access to one of the serial ports in BIOS. Is this possible?

I can see that my base should be freebios2 and not freebios. Which 
motherboard/configuration would be my best starting point?

I would like to flash a linux kernel 2.4.x in BIOS which later on could boot a 
linux 2.6.x from either harddisk or net. How does the one kernel hand over 
the control to the other?

Regards,
-- 
Andreas Bach Aaen              System Developer, M. Sc. 
Ericsson Telebit A/S           tel: +45 89 38 51 00
Skanderborgvej 232             fax: +45 89 38 51 01
8260 Viby J      Denmark       andreas.bach.aaen at ericsson.com



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