Help needed (LinuxBIOS & FILO on EPIA5000)

[Sven Luebke]

At 18:24 19.09.2003 +0900, SONE Takeshi wrote:

Hi Takeshi!

> > In FILO I edited the file "Config" and changed only:
> > AUTOBOOT_FILE = "hda5:/vmlinuz"
>
>If this file is the bzImage format kernel, FILO can't load it (yet).
>Use mkelfImage from ftp://ftp.lnxi.com/pub/mkelfImage/
>to convert your vmlinuz to ELF.

Thank you, that was my first failure! I had to replace the binutils package,
which was installed with my Debian distribution, to get the ELF image
(otherwise an internal error occured). Which command-line parameters
do I have to use if I want VGA support? I used:

mkelfImage --kernel=/usr/src/linux-2.4.21/arch/i386/boot/bzImage \
                      --output=/vmlinuz.elf \
                      --command-line="console=ttyS0,115200n8 root=/dev/hda5"

> > 1. In "epia.config" there is the option PAYLOAD_SIZE! Do I have to change
> > it to the size of the "filo.elf" payload?? I tried it, but it's not 
> working
> > nevertheless...
>
>I have never tried to change that option.

Ok, then I do not change it also...

> > 2. Is FILO compatible with the ext3 filesystem? I am using it in my root
> > partition,
> > but read, that ext2 and ext3 are compatible! Is that my failure?
>
>FILO works with ext3 just fine. In fact I'm using ext3 too.
>Filesystem routines are from GNU GRUB and it's been compatilbe with ext3
>for quite a while.

Oh, that's great, because I don't have to convert from ext3 to ext2!

>You definitely need a serial cable to see what is going on.

Yes, you are right. I build a nullmodem cable to see the debug infos, but
Linuxbios isn't very "verbose" :-):

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LinuxBIOS-1.0.0 Fri Sep 19 13:58:31 CEST 2003 starting...
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That's the last message...

Any idea? Is it better to deactivate VGA support first and get the rest 
working first?

Thank you so much for your help!


Best regards,

Sven