[LinuxBIOS] VIA EPIA build
Jun OKAJIMA
okajima at digitalinfra.co.jp
Sun May 1 02:44:24 CEST 2005
It would be sure that many guys in this list have succeeded to
build a rom image for VIA EPIA series with both freebios1 and 2.
How you did it? And what is the difference with my case?
--- Okajima.
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Hello Linux BIOS developers.
I have tried to run linuxbios on VIA EPIA-C800 M/B, but failed. I tried
both freebios1 and 2 src trees, but both failed, Sigh. Anyone can help me ?
Source trees:
freebios-20041019-1200.tar.bz2
freebios2-20050305-0000.tar.bz2
from http://snapshots.linuxbios.org/
in both case, I uses filo/usb from Etherboot 5.4.0 as a payload.
FreeBIOS1:
I tried with both util/config/epia.conf and epia800.conf, but both failed.
epia.conf does not run. it shows weird and buggy chars. must be runaway.
epia800.conf runs. but does not load a payload. just ended up with
"bad gzip magic numbers" after had execed pc80/ide_* stuff.
I looked up why epia.conf does not run and found the difference between both
configurations. it would need these lines to be added, but why?
option BOOT_IDE=1
option IDE_BOOT_DRIVE=0
option ONE_TRACK=63
FreeBIOS2:
Just did not work. it seems not to work totally, because even VGA sync
signal does not comes. BTW, how to enable VGA debugging output?
--- Okajima, Jun. Tokyo, Japan.
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