[LinuxBIOS] BIOS Saver discontinued
Jeff Carr
jcarr at linuxmachines.com
Wed Sep 14 22:19:48 CEST 2005
On 09/14/2005 12:19 PM, Richard Smith wrote:
>>256, when i flash the stock 256k image onto the 512k chip it will not
>>boot. No clue as to why. This could be a function of my programmer, not
>>sure.
>
>
> Duplicate the image into both of halfs of the 512k chip. Whats
> probally happening is that the additional address line on the 512k
> chip is not pulled down on the board so its floating and your chip is
> selecting addresses in the unprogrammed area of the chip. If you dup
> the image then it won't matter what the floating address line is
> doing.
>
> That is as long as the line dosn't float into the "undefined" range
> and cause a latchup.
>
You are clever. That worked. At least one time anyway. :)
Good, I can finally give linuxbios a go. First to try flash & burn now.
Jeff
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