coreboot September 2004

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RE: Boot problem
by Dave Aubin 21 Sep '04

21 Sep '04

I second Stefan's response. I was so stubborn at first to try This and then it helped me so much! So please try this or Netconsole. I suspect your kernel could not mount the file System you specified. If you try the above methods you should See exactly what failed. I think... FYI Netconsole link: http://technocrat.net/article.pl?sid=04/08/14/0236245&mode=nested -----Original Message----- From: linuxbios-admin(a)clustermatic.org [mailto:linuxbios-admin@clustermatic.org] On Behalf Of Stefan Reinauer Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 3:56 AM To: Sagiv Yefet Cc: linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org Subject: Re: Boot problem * Sagiv Yefet <sagivy(a)3vium.com> [040921 10:21]: > I prepared a kernel elf file. > The station is up and it loads the elf file. > Then nothing happens. > Just print something: > Firmware: bios is Linuxbios One note: It would be a lot easier to help you if you posted a bit of context around your debug reports, like 2-3 lines of serial output before the hang etc. Plus, just pasting the actual serial output is easier to debug than writing error messages down from memory. Detailed reports will give you higher quality and quicker answers. > What can be the problem? You did not specify to use serial console for your Linux kernel. add something like "console=ttyS0,115200n8" to your command line. Stefan _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

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Boot problem
by Sagiv Yefet 21 Sep '04

21 Sep '04

I prepared a kernel elf file. The station is up and it loads the elf file. Then nothing happens. Just print something: Firmware: bios is Linuxbios What can be the problem? Sagiv

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Re: PXE support
by Trellix78＠aol.com 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

It does. Etherboot can masquerade as PXE. Unless I'm missing something, I'm not sure why you would want to do that since the DHCP server will send a PXE image, which then has to grab the kernel. Etherboot can just grab the whole thing in one swoop. David Atlanta, GA

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Re: EPIA-M, LinuxBIOS1, RAM size
by Trellix78＠aol.com 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

I'd look in src/arch/i386/lib/hardwaremain.c. get_ramsize() in void hardwaremain() seems to be the culprit for RAM size. That's where I've been mucking about trying to do automatic memory sizing for the Epia M. I don't have any specs for the northbridge registers, so it's been slow going. I've been working from the spec sheets for an AMD 762 hoping to hit something. However, The 762 seems to conform better to standards. I also suspect an incorrect RAM size is causing the AGP GART setup code to crash the system both in LinuxBIOS and the AGP drivers in Linux. Good luck, and will somebody let me know when and where RAM sizing is working.

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Epia-PD anyone?
by Andreas Thienemann 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

Hi, I'm wondering if the epia-pd is already supported? From what I could gather, it should not be different than the current epia-m board. However, trying the epia-m code on the -pd results in a blank screen, no serial, no beeps, no nothing. just a dead box. So, either I missed something, or I did something wrong. bye, andreas

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EPIA-M, LinuxBIOS1, RAM size
by linuxbios＠mikebell.org 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

So no one can tell me where to look to bump the RAM size up to 256M under linuxbios1?

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linuxbios on epai-m boards
by Dieter Bloms 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

Hi, I want to use the linuxbios on my epai-m board. In the status page the support for this board is unstable. Is it possible to reflash the board with the original software, if the linuxbios doesn't work as aspected ? I haven't got a flash programmer, so if the bios doesn't work, I can throw the board out. -- Gruß Dieter -- I do not get viruses because I do not use MS software. If you use Outlook then please do not put my email address in your address-book so that WHEN you get a virus it won't use my address in the From field.

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mkelfImage-2.5
by Sagiv Yefet 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

Hello, I am trying to build the mkelfImage utility. I download the mkelfImage-2.5. configure and build. And I have the this error: linux-i386/head.S: Assembler messages: linux-i386/head.S:458: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `U' where can I find a linux elf ? thanks, Sagiv

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RE: (fwd) RE: building romimage for tyan s2850 mainboard [sagivy@3vium.com]
by Sagiv Yefet 19 Sep '04

19 Sep '04

I get the message says: The boot Image is not valid. (bzImage). What it is expecting for ? -----Original Message----- From: YhLu [mailto:YhLu@tyan.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 6:34 PM To: Sagiv Yefet Cc: Stefan Reinauer; linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org Subject: RE: (fwd) RE: building romimage for tyan s2850 mainboard [sagivy(a)3vium.com] You can comment out dir /drivers/broadcom/tg3 too. Current Etherboot has problem with NIC is S2850. I forget the chip model. So I use one add on card to do network booting. (intel eepro100) Regards YH -----Original Message----- From: Sagiv Yefet [mailto:sagivy@3vium.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 4:53 AM To: YhLu Cc: Stefan Reinauer; linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org Subject: RE: (fwd) RE: building romimage for tyan s2850 mainboard [sagivy(a)3vium.com] How can I had the broadcom NIC ? When I comment out this in Config.lb (mainboard)? dir /drivers/broadcom/tg3_ipmi the buildtarget utility says it is not in the Sourcetree. When I change this line to be: dir /drivers/broadcom/tg3 (existing dir in the Sourcetree) there is a make error. I tried it with gcc-3.3.1 and gcc-3.3.2 I have binutils 2.15. Did you ever succeed to build an image supporting broadcom NIC ? Regards, Sagiv -----Original Message----- From: YhLu [mailto:YhLu@tyan.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 6:55 PM To: Stefan Reinauer; linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org; Sagiv Yefet Subject: RE: (fwd) RE: building romimage for tyan s2850 mainboard [sagivy(a)3vium.com] Sagiv, I just sent you tar ball of my source code before I added S2895 and S2735 support. Please check it out. Regards YH -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:stepan@openbios.org] Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 7:29 AM To: linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org; Sagiv Yefet Subject: (fwd) RE: building romimage for tyan s2850 mainboard [sagivy(a)3vium.com] 1) Please Cc the mailing list, there are many people who might help you quicker/better than I do. 2) I don't understand your first question at all. 3) "invalid CMOS LB checksum" Means that the CMOS is not valid for LinuxBIOS. Probably because you had a different firmware running before LinuxBIOS in that machine. This error should go away automatically after rebooting. Stefan ----- Forwarded message from Sagiv Yefet <sagivy(a)3vium.com> ----- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:41:46 +0200 From: "Sagiv Yefet" <sagivy(a)3vium.com> To: "Stefan Reinauer" <stepan(a)openbios.org> Subject: RE: building romimage for tyan s2850 mainboard I comment out the: #dir /drivers/ati/ragexl -- video which pci line in the southbridge it relate to? southbridge amd/amd8111 "amd8111" link 0 pci 0:0.0 pci 0:1.0 on pci 0:1.1 on pci 0:1.2 on pci 0:1.3 on pci 0:1.5 off pci 0:1.6 off pci 1:0.0 on pci 1:0.1 on pci 1:0.2 off pci 1:1.0 off end what is this ERROR means ? invalid CMOS LB checksum Sagiv. -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:stepan@openbios.org] Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 12:57 PM To: Sagiv Yefet Cc: linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org Subject: Re: building romimage for tyan s2850 mainboard * Sagiv Yefet <sagivy(a)3vium.com> [040914 12:43]: > Thanks, it worked. > > There are 2 errors: > 1. ERROR - could not find PCI 1:03.0, using defaults This looks like an error in the mptable creation, but I am not sure without the context here. > 2. ERROR: PNP: 002e.b 70 not allocated > in Config.lb: 002e.b = HW monitor No idea. I always kind of guessed when fiddling with PnP configuration. > what does it means? Can anyone on the list give some details here? Stefan ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

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Intel EFI
by Trellix78＠aol.com 18 Sep '04

18 Sep '04

I wanted to bring to attention Intel's Platform Innovation Framework for Extensible Firmware Interface since its goals overlap with those LinuxBIOS a little bit. After reading the article at _http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT3790951165.html_ (http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT3790951165.html) , I had some questions about the ability of LinuxBIOS to support next-generation hardware. It looks like Intel wants to change the whole firmware landscape with EFI. If such a framework will be truly open and support legacy systems, it'll make LinuxBIOS redundant, wouldn't it? What about newer architectures like those built around the Itanium? Will LinuxBIOS be able to scale up as well as EFI? Those are questions that I wanted to throw out there.

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