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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Hello all,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I’m currently in the process of trying to get Linuxbios to work
on my Via EPIA-M with no success. I have successfully complied Etherboot 5.2.0
as my payload, and performed a successful build of Linuxbios. I burned the
image without any errors and rebooted the system. I then had absolutely no
output on either serial port, or local display. I currently have 256 MB of ram
in the unit, and have tried a build with and without the extracted vgabios.bin.
I have included my config file for your review. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Shawn<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>#<br>
# LinuxBIOS config file for: VIA epia-m mini-itx<br>
#<br>
<br>
target /usr/local/build/epia-m<br>
<br>
# via epia<br>
mainboard via/epia-m<br>
<br>
# Enable Serial Console for debugging<br>
option SERIAL_CONSOLE=1<br>
#option SERIAL_POST=1<br>
option TTYS0_BAUD=115200<br>
#option TTYS0_BAUD=57600<br>
option HAVE_FRAMEBUFFER=1<br>
option CONFIG_VGABIOS=1<br>
option CONFIG_REALMODE_IDT=1<br>
dir src/bioscall<br>
option CONFIG_PCIBIOS=1<br>
option VGABIOS_START=0xfffe0000<br>
#addaction romimage dd if=../vgabios.bin of=romimage bs=65536 seek=2 conv=sync
conv=notrunc<br>
option CONFIG_EPIAMVERSIONSTRING="5.0.0E-" __DATE__ " "
__TIME__<br>
#target /ram/freebios/obj<br>
#payload /code/bootfiles/etherboot/via6105m.ebi<br>
<br>
option DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL=9<br>
option DEBUG=1<br>
<br>
# Use 256KB Standard Flash as <st1:place w:st="on">Normal</st1:place> BIOS <br>
option RAMTEST=1<br>
option USE_GENERIC_ROM=1<br>
option STD_FLASH=1<br>
#option ZKERNEL_START=0xfffc0000<br>
option ROM_SIZE=262144<br>
<br>
# payload size = 192KB<br>
option PAYLOAD_SIZE=196608<br>
<br>
# use ELF Loader to load Etherboot<br>
option USE_ELF_BOOT=1<br>
<br>
# Use Etherboot as our payload <br>
payload /home/shawnp/bios/etherboot-5.2.0/src/bin/via-rhine.elf <br>
# payload /opt/cwlinux/memtest86/memtest<br>
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