[LinuxBIOS] Which BIOS Savior for VIA EPIA M-II?

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Tue Oct 30 03:27:36 CET 2007


* Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> [071030 03:23]:
> > especially that I want the motherboard boot Linux from CF port (I
> > read the howto and I think I know what to do) which can be tricky.
> 
> Note that I don't know if anyone has actually gotten this to work. I
> made some effort about a year ago but there were issues. There was
> some discussion on this very topic about one month ago too, look for
> a thread in the archive either late September or beginning of October.

There was a small program for the initrd that would fix it by resetting
the CF controller after FILO would use it as IDE.

The correct fix would be to put this piece of code in FILO itself after
the kernel was loaded.

I can't seem to find that code anymore though. 

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