intel 440bx failures <-- good thread

[Roger]

(sorry about that. my san.rr.com isp has been deactivated in favor of
the Linux based speakeasy.net isp ;-) 

(BTW. I can send a beginning hexdump/edit of the bios chip for
verification that it is being burned properly. )

I've tried smartcore-p5/ & l440bx/ and on each boot, the 440bx box still
acts like it can't find any bios (ie black screen, some minimal drive
activity, nothing on ttyS1, etc)

>From what has been briefed to me, the DOC MIL chip will mimic a standard
flash DIP and doesn't need docipl(?) -- docipl is needed in order to use
nftl to install something like a root partition on the chip?

I've also tried flashing the builds to a standard DIP 2Mb/256kb flash
(even though I know it doesn't fit :-).

One thing I will note tho, I do have to use openbios/devbios to burn the
standard AMTEL 32pin DIP Flash as for some reason linux mtd will fail to
recognize these chips (even after I unshadow flash to the chipset by
hacking devbios module to *not* unshadow after being unloaded.

I do know that openbios/devbios is flashing properly as I mistakenly
flashed my original manuf bios flash chip and then had to re-flash it
and then flash another chip for backup incase it failed.  Amazingly both
chips worked and both had good copies of the manuf. bios on them. ;-)

-- 

Roger
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