Any EPIA etherboot success stories?

[Mark Wilkinson]

On Thursday 10 Jul 2003 23:20, Mark Wilkinson wrote:
> 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 :-)
>

oops, hit the wrong key there...

what seems to be the problem that you're having ? your epia.config, the 
zkernel_start address looks odd. My configs have this option commented out or 
set to 0xfffc000

what version of etherboot are you using ?


Regards
Mark.

>
> 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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