[LinuxBIOS] trying to boot Gigabyte M575SLI

[Peter Stuge]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 01:36:03AM +0200, Andreas B. Mundt wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 05:58:51PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
> > 
> > I would appreciate any feedback I can get on the patch. It needs more
> > testing.
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> tried your patch.

Great!


> It seems to work for the Kernel, but fails with the inird.img (?).

Did you specify a drive also for initrd.img? /initrd.img is not
enough, it should be hde1:/initrd.img if hde1 is the right partition.


> I cut some "identical" lines to keep the mail shorter, 
> if the full output is necessary just let me know.

Not this time, but unless they are truly identical lines please do
not remove them, and even if they are it may be useful to know how
many they were.


> Remark: I used only a delay(1) in main/filo.c, which was enought
> before the patch has been applied (Ward, perhaps this can be added
> to your Wiki).  

Do you still need an extra delay(1) with the patch applied?


Thanks for testing!


> ide_readmany: sector 0 to 0x00117c00
> ide_readmany: sector 132825420 to 0x00119400
> ide_readmany: sector 132825485 to 0x00119600
> ide_readmany: sector 132825486 to 0x00119800
> Mounted ext2fs
> ide_readmany: sector 132825491 to 0x0011a200
> ..............cut...........................
> ext2fs_read_one: block  438273  offset=1210 len=1 ret=0
> ext2fs_read_one: block  438273  offset=1211 len=1 ret=0
> Press any key to continue.
> Press any key to continue.
> Press any key to continue.
> Press any key to continue.
> Press any key to continue.
> Press any key to continue.
> ext2fs_read_one: block  438273  offset=1212 len=1 ret=0
> ext2fs_read_one: block  438273  offset=1213 len=1 ret=0
> ......................cut..............................
> ext2fs_read_one: block  438274  offset=518 len=1 ret=0
> ext2fs_read_one: block  438274  offset=519 len=1 ret=0
> ext2fs_read_one: block  438274  offset=520 len=1 ret=0
> ide_readmany: sector 132825491 to 0x0011a200
> ide_readmany: sector 132825492 to 0x0011a400
> ide_readmany: sector 132825493 to 0x0011a600
> ide_readmany: sector 132825494 to 0x0011a800
> ide_readmany: sector 132825495 to 0x0011aa00

Sigh.. ext2 code in FILO is really simple.


//Peter