Any EPIA etherboot success stories?

[Mark Wilkinson]

Hi David,
	If you mean has anyone managed to boot a Via EPIA using etherboot as the 
payload, and loading the kernel via (no pun) tftp, then yes.... but then I 
wrote it all down in the EPIA howto :-)


Regards
Mark.


On Thursday 10 Jul 2003 23:22, David Hendricks wrote:
> I see a lot of people here have gotten LinuxBIOS working with the Via EPIA
> using an IDE device, but has anyone managed to get it working using
> etherboot to boot a kernel over a network? I'm a hopeless newbie and have
> been struggling with this for some time. I have links to logs, my payload,
> and my config below (Trying to keep the list archives tidy).
>
> I had gotten etherboot working with the PCM-5823s earlier and compared the
> minicom log with that of my Epia. The only real obvious discrepency I see
> is the entry point. The Geode entered at 0x00094000 (606,208), while the
> Epia is trying to enter at 0x00020000 (131,072).
>
> I'm using CVS versions of Etherboot and LinuxBios. However, I haven't been
> able to update in the past one or two weeks due to Sourceforge's problems
> so I might have missed an important patch.
>
> Links
> EPIA minicom log (High verbosity):
> http://www.flagen.com/~sc/linux/funstuff/epia-dave
> My Rhine payload:
> http://www.flagen.com/~sc/linux/funstuff/via-rhine-ebcvs.elf
> My config file: http://www.flagen.com/~sc/linux/funstuff/epia.config
> Geode (Elfboot part only):
> http://www.flagen.com/~sc/linux/funstuff/geode-elfboot-dave
>
> TIA
> --David
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