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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When I first encountered LinuxBIOS project at the
beginning of december, I was amazed at what it can do (for example I would like
to build my OWN mini router DoC distro). So the next day I found M-Sys
distributor in Poland and ordered two MD2802-D08 units, because I had two spare
mobo's with BX chipset. After 4 (!!!) weeks of waiting I finally got my DoCs and
began my story with LinuxBIOS begun. First thaing that was wrong, was that
docipl file was missing, but I tried not to bother about that. It took me a few
days before I read on the linuxbios newsgroup that BX is not supported in the
way I would like it to be. I also learned that SiS got very good support (now I
know it HAD, but hasn't any more), so I tried to buy used SiS 630/635/730/735
chipset based mainboard, because I saw they all got ipl.S file in their folders.
After one week I finally found nice board based on SiS 735 (Ellitegroup's K7S5A)
and I bought it. I patched kernel for use with SiS and tried to build rom images
for my new SiS. Then something terrible happened! I got error during compilation
of docipl file, saying that .org instruction is moving backwards! Once again I
looked up newsgroup and read that SiS 735 with DoC is _NOT_ supported. That's
why I got a few questions:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1. Which *NEW* mainboard can I buy if I want to
install LinuxBIOS with DoC Millenium support on it?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2. How mature is freebios2 project?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3. Does IPL code for SiS 735 initialize only DDR
SDRAM (no standard SDRAM) or both? (I got normal SDRAM in my mobo)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>4. If I get it right SiS 735 cannot boot off
MD2802-D08 because it's IPL code is too big?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>5. Any idea why my flash writer does not work on
mobo ECS K7S5A, based on SiS 735 with IT8705F superio (which is 100% compatible
with SiS 950)? I use "flash_on" utility for SiS and if I'm right it should work
on this nb/sb/sio configuration, but "flash_rom" says "no EEPROM".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for any help,<BR>Uszaty</FONT></DIV>
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