[LinuxBIOS] Iwill DK8-HTX now runs under LinuxBIOS r2587 (Thanks)

Ning (Michael) Qu quning at gmail.com
Tue Apr 24 05:48:48 CEST 2007


Hi, Alexei,

I have found how to use AMIdeco from
http://linuxbios.org/Tyan_S2882_Build_Tutorial#VGA_bios.
But I am still now sure the other problems I asked in my last email....

Best,
Ning

On 4/23/07, Ning (Michael) Qu <quning at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Alexei,
>
> Thanks for your posts on DK8-HTX. I am just starting working on this
> mainboard these two days. From what you said in your email, you modify
> several things I think, and most of them must be modified by lxbios, I
> try to summarize your work:
> 1 serial console baud_rate -> 115200
> 2 max_mem_clock -> 400MHz
> 3 boot_first ("HDD"), boot_second and boot_third ("Fallback_HDD").
> I am not sure how to achieve the third one. Is it also in cmos?
>
> And another question is that I don't know how to dd a 36K Video ROM as
> you said. Do you just enlarge the size of dd?
> such as this?
> dd if=/dev/mem of=vgabios.bin skip=1536 count=72
>
> Is that all the things you make LinuxBIOS run on DK8-HTX? Thanks for your help!
>
> Best
> Ning
>
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 03:33:30PM +0400, Alexei I. Adamovich wrote:
> > Looking at the serial console output after changing the boot_option
> > value to "Normal" and the debug_level value to "Spew" in the CMOS,
> > I've found that the system hangs near the very begining of load
> > process after trying to find some memory (dram0).
>
> Forgot to mention that to see the serial console output I also changed
> the baud_rate CMOS value to "115200"--since just this value was
> defined in the LinuxBios Config-s and I had set my serial console
> client (kermit) to wait connection just on this rate.
>
> Alexei I. Adamovich
>




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