April 2003 - coreboot - mail.coreboot.org

Socket 370 boards...
by Dale Harris April 29, 2003

April 29, 2003

Hi, I'm kind of looking at a situation where I'm probably going to purchase some dual CPU Socket 370 boards, cause I have bunch of Pentium III - 1Ghz chips laying around. What is the best board at this point to purchase, that is supported by LinuxBIOS? Need to be able to support at least 2Gb RAM. -- Dale Harris rodmur(a)maybe.org /.-)

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Re: Bios flashing continued
by Yap Ee Huey April 29, 2003

April 29, 2003

Hi, I have been looking for a program to flash my eeprom as well. The standard flash programs do not allow me to burn unidentified bios. I have found two very useful and general flash and burn programs : (1)UNIFLASH (DOS program) http://www.pppr.sk/rainbow/programs.html (2)/dev/bios (Linux program) http://www.openbios.info/development/devbios.html Hope it helps u ! Although they don't work on my board -> TUSL2-C (eeprom SST49LF002A) because of some undocumented write protect registers maybe. good luck, eehuey > >Message: 5 >Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:07:24 -0600 >Subject: Re: Bios flashing continued >From: Nathanael Noblet <nathanael(a)gnat.ca> >To: linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org > > >On Monday, April 28, 2003, at 09:23 AM, ron minnich wrote: > > > if you get really stuck, try the MTD drivers from linux. I am hoping > > Ollie > > can help tell what's going on. > >So I have been unable so far to make any progress. Using google to >search for bios flashing mtd gets me nothing of value. I can't get the >flash_and_burn stuff to do anything for me so I hope Ollie can help as >well. If there are any resources I should look/read please pass them >this way as well. > >-- >Nathanael Noblet >Gnat Solutions >4604 Monterey Ave NW >Calgary, AB >T3B 5K4 > >T/F 403.288.5360 >C 403.809.5368 > >http://www.gnat.ca/ > > _________________________________________________________________ Download ringtones, logos and picture messages from MSN Malaysia http://www.msn.com.my/mobile/ringtones/default.asp

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Question on Storage Area Networks(SAN) with LINUX, what is the BEST forrum
by Deepak Kotian April 29, 2003

April 29, 2003

Hi , Sorry, off topic/may if off forum.. But any help would be appreciated. Where would be best place to put queries for SAN Linux HOSTS. As LinuxBIOS is close with clusters, I am just guessing some people on this list may have good idea about this. Thanks and Regards Deepak

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can't get 2.4.19 to compile
by demian sinclair April 29, 2003

April 29, 2003

I am trying to get linux bios to work on my m758lmr+ for my carputer. Unfortunately I am stuck at the first stage. When I try make bzImage after patching with the 2.4.19-sis patch, I get this: ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux-2.4.19/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o init/do_mounts.o \ --start-group \ arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o \ drivers/char/char.o drivers/block/block.o drivers/misc/misc.o drivers/net/net.o drivers/media/media.o drivers/ide/idedriver.o drivers/cdrom/driver.o drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o drivers/pci/driver.o drivers/video/video.o \ net/network.o \ /usr/src/linux-2.4.19/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux-2.4.19/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux-2.4.19/arch/i386/lib/lib.a \ --end-group \ -o vmlinux drivers/video/video.o(.data+0x1bd4): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 This is on debian woddy with gcc 2.95. I have also tried 2.4.17 and I get this: ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o \ --start-group \ arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o \ drivers/char/char.o drivers/block/block.o drivers/misc/misc.o drivers/net/net.o drivers/media/media.o drivers/ide/idedriver.o drivers/cdrom/driver.o drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o drivers/pci/driver.o drivers/mtd/mtdlink.o drivers/video/video.o drivers/usb/usbdrv.o \ net/network.o \ /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a \ --end-group \ -o vmlinux drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o(.data+0x1d4): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit' drivers/mtd/mtdlink.o(.text.lock+0xf6): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit' drivers/video/video.o(.data+0x1bd4): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 Would someone plz point me in the right direction. Thanks, DS

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RE: Using ADLO with Linuxbios
by dkotian3＠vsnl.net April 29, 2003

April 29, 2003

But, with this the romimage created would very large to to fit in an 256K/512K FLASH ROMS. One needs to put only minimal LinuxBIOS on BIOS flashrom due to size constraint of the flashrom and boot it from CF, how does one do it ? Can someone give sample config for this as well if possible.. Could someone please elaborate. Regards Deepak rminnich(a)lanl.gov wrote On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Shubhangi Jadhav wrote: > Can this be the same kernel image from which I created my elf image? stupid me. Sorry. you mkelfImage and then use that as the payload. Memory glitch on my part. ron

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Using ADLO with Linuxbios
by Shubhangi Jadhav April 29, 2003

April 29, 2003

Hi, I have 512k bios, so the kernel should be put somewhere on the harddisk. Hence I'm using ADLO with Linuxbios. However I'm not able to get linuxbios working. I followed these steps : Build the ADLO payload as per the instructions in the readme for ADLO. Appended the following entry to the config file : USE_ELF_BOOT=0 payload /home/shubhangi/freebios/util/ADLO/payload Build the romimage using this config file. Is this the correct way to use ADLO? Thanks for any help. Regards, Shubhangi

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Re: Bios flashing continued
by Nathanael Noblet April 29, 2003

April 29, 2003

On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 07:42 AM, ron minnich wrote: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Nathanael Noblet wrote: > >> I ran these commands: >> ./dumpdevmem > bios >> hexdump bios | more > > This is with bios savior right? I had the same problem. I don't know > what > part it is. Bios savior? I don't think so. I have a SBC board, I haven't purchased anything special for it. I take it Bios Savior is some kind of device to make sure you don't loose the bios... > Do you have a plain old flash part you can put in there? SST 28SF040 is > ideal. I can put an empty new flash part WinBond W29C020CP9DB ( I think it often goes by W29c020) -- Nathanael Noblet Gnat Solutions 4604 Monterey Ave NW Calgary, AB T3B 5K4 T/F 403.288.5360 C 403.809.5368 http://www.gnat.ca/

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Linuxbios + ADLO
by Yap Ee Huey April 29, 2003

April 29, 2003

Hi hackers, Thanks for all the answers regarding linuxbios + etherboot +tagged kernel image . But I don't want to modify my partitions, so I have changed my approach. I am using ADLO with Linuxbios now, I have: ADLO file -> payload 65k Linuxbios ROM -> linuxbios.rom 64k I specify in my config file : option USE_ELF_BOOT=1 payload payload And then I build a romimage (256k) with payload padded to (192k) dd conv=sync bs=196608 if=payload of=payload.block and linuxbios.rom at the end 64k . cat payload.block linuxbios.rom > romimage Does this make sense ? The result is negative. I can't boot. I have tried to put linuxbios.rom at first 64k and then following with ADLO payload and padded to 256k. Negative result also. What is the correct placement in rom to load linuxbios.rom at the first place and then tell it to go to ADLO payload ? Thanks everyone, eehuey _________________________________________________________________ Using a handphone prepaid card? Reload your credit online! http://www.msn.com.my/reloadredir/default.asp

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Fw: Another way of using ADLO
by bendany April 29, 2003

April 29, 2003

---- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Agnew" <agnew(a)cs.umd.edu> To: "bendany" <bendany(a)mistdl.com> Cc: <linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 4:29 PM Subject: Re: Another way of using ADLO > > Hi Bendany, > > Perhaps I missed something in your email.. But if you've loaded ADLO + > Bochs BIOS then you have Int13 support. Why not run Grub from the flash > disk then instead of etherboot+AA? Is it because of the speed? yes. I have try several time. using the ADLO with Int13 support. when I using the LILO & Grub , I works with the IBM harddisk. but when I use the Flash IDE disk. always give me LI 01 01 01 ... with LILO. or with Grub, too slow. but with the etherboot+AA . it sounds great!. :-) > > - Adam Agnew > > > On Thu, 1 May 2003, bendany wrote: > > >

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RE: vgabios emulation status
by hcyun＠etri.re.kr April 29, 2003

April 29, 2003

AFAIK, the best way of VGA emulation is using ADLO. Because ADLO run boch bios, VGABIOS can be excuted just like as it comes with other commercial bios environment. Heechul

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