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RE: [LinuxBIOS] Asking help for serial output
by Dave Ashley 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

CompUSA sells BIOS Post code cards for $50, we bought one and it was very useful during a certain stage of development. It'd help you before serial output is working. They have a 2 digit LED display, it's a little pci card that plugs into any pci slot. Within linuxbios and all bios' in general during the bootup process different codes are displayed. You can put in debug statements like post_code(0xda); to cause a specific code to show up. So you can tell how far it gets before something goes wrong or whatever. Have you tried all the serial ports? Maybe linuxbios is bringing up a different serial port as the console output one. Most MB's have more than one.

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RE: [LinuxBIOS] Asking help for serial output
by Lu, Yinghai 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

So your serial cable connection is right. I don't know who port the dk8s2, maybe ollie, He may send you one pre-built image. YH -----Original Message----- From: Frank Samuel [mailto:windrainman@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 6:43 PM To: Lu, Yinghai; Stefan Reinauer Cc: linuxbios(a)openbios.org Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] Asking help for serial output Thanks. --- "Lu, Yinghai" <yinghai.lu(a)amd.com> wrote: > About the serial console, did you verify the > connection by enabling > serial console on /etc/inittab? > > YH > > I just added s0:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L -f /etc/issueserial 9600 ttyS0 vt100 s1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L -f /etc/issueserial 38400 ttyS1 vt100 into /etc/initab on the machine where I run minicom. And run init -q. After power cycle the machine with linuxbios.rom flashed, but I still cannot get output from serial cable. BTW, I connected the cable to another machine and can recieve serial output of booting process. BTW, I installed lxbios, and run it right after linuxbios.rom is flashed. But it said that that linuxbios is not installed. Does it mean that the linuxbios.rom generated is still incorrect? The way I flashed linuxbios and ran lxbios is below: -bash-2.05b# ./flash_rom -vw /home/opt/linuxbios/LinuxBIOSv2-2040/targets/Iwill/dk8s2/dk8s2/linuxbios .rom The arguments are: -vw /home/opt/linuxbios/LinuxBIOSv2-2040/targets/Iwill/dk8s2/dk8s2/linuxbios .rom Calibrating timer since microsleep sucks ... takes a second Setting up microsecond timing loop 454M loops per second OK, calibrated, now do the deed Enabling flash write on AMD8111...OK Trying Am29F040B, 512 KB probe_29f040b: id1 0x7f, id2 0x45 Trying At29C040A, 512 KB probe_jedec: id1 0xbf, id2 0x60 Trying Mx29f002, 256 KB probe_29f002: id1 0xbf, id2 0x60 Trying SST29EE020A, 256 KB probe_jedec: id1 0xbf, id2 0x60 Trying SST28SF040A, 512 KB probe_28sf040: id1 0x7f, id2 0x45 Trying SST39SF020A, 256 KB probe_jedec: id1 0xbf, id2 0x60 Trying SST39VF020, 256 KB probe_jedec: id1 0xbf, id2 0x60 Trying SST49LF040, 512 KB probe_jedec: id1 0xbf, id2 0x60 Trying SST49LF080A, 1024 KB probe_jedec: id1 0xff, id2 0xff Trying SST49LF002A/B, 256 KB probe_jedec: id1 0xbf, id2 0x60 Trying SST49LF003A/B, 384 KB probe_jedec: id1 0xbf, id2 0x60 Trying SST49LF004A/B, 512 KB probe_jedec: id1 0xbf, id2 0x60 SST49LF004A/B found at physical address: 0xfff80000 Part is SST49LF004A/B Programming Page: 0007 at address: 0x00070000 Verifying address: VERIFIED -bash-2.05b# lxbios -a lxbios: LinuxBIOS table not found. LinuxBIOS does not appear to be installed on this system. Scanning for the table produced the following results: 0 valid signatures were found with bad header checksums. 0 valid headers were found with bad table checksums. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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RE: [LinuxBIOS] Asking help for serial output
by Lu, Yinghai 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

About the serial console, did you verify the connection by enabling serial console on /etc/inittab? YH -----Original Message----- From: Frank Samuel [mailto:windrainman@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5:13 PM To: Lu, Yinghai; Stefan Reinauer Cc: linuxbios(a)openbios.org Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] Asking help for serial output Here is the info: when running flash_rom -vw linuxbios.rom, I get ..... Part is SST49LF004A/B Programming Page: 0007 at address: 0x00070000 Verifying address: VERIFIED Memory of the machine with linuxbios installed is of size 1GB. I tired compiling on two machines with two different kernels. 2.6.11.4-20a-default (SuSE 9.3 on a uniprocessor desktop) 2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp (Fedora Core 1 on IWILL DK8S.) Both kernels are 32-bit. The machine that I install linuxbios has a kernel of 64 bit 2.6.5-7.97-smp #1 SMP (SuSE SLES9) Xuehua --- "Lu, Yinghai" <yinghai.lu(a)amd.com> wrote: > Flash_rom? > > Did you try > flash_rom -vw linuxbios.rom > > How many memory on MB? >4G or not? > Linux Kernel version? 2.6, 64 bit? > > YH > > -----Original Message----- > From: linuxbios-bounces(a)openbios.org > [mailto:linuxbios-bounces@openbios.org] On Behalf Of > Stefan Reinauer > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 2:38 PM > To: Frank Samuel > Cc: linuxbios(a)openbios.org > Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Asking help for serial > output > > * Frank Samuel <windrainman(a)yahoo.com> [050921 > 23:24]: > > I tried two motherboards, Iwill/DK8S2 and > tyan/s2882. > > Compiled succesfully and get a linuxbios.rom and > > flashed them to chip using flash_rom. But I didn't > see > > any output via serial port. > > 1) wrong baud rate? See the motherboard config file > 2) 1:1 cable instead of null modem (cross) cable? > > Stefan > > > -- > LinuxBIOS mailing list > LinuxBIOS(a)openbios.org > http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > > > > -- > LinuxBIOS mailing list > LinuxBIOS(a)openbios.org > http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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RE: [LinuxBIOS] Asking help for serial output
by Lu, Yinghai 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

Flash_rom? Did you try flash_rom -vw linuxbios.rom How many memory on MB? >4G or not? Linux Kernel version? 2.6, 64 bit? YH -----Original Message----- From: linuxbios-bounces(a)openbios.org [mailto:linuxbios-bounces@openbios.org] On Behalf Of Stefan Reinauer Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 2:38 PM To: Frank Samuel Cc: linuxbios(a)openbios.org Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Asking help for serial output * Frank Samuel <windrainman(a)yahoo.com> [050921 23:24]: > I tried two motherboards, Iwill/DK8S2 and tyan/s2882. > Compiled succesfully and get a linuxbios.rom and > flashed them to chip using flash_rom. But I didn't see > any output via serial port. 1) wrong baud rate? See the motherboard config file 2) 1:1 cable instead of null modem (cross) cable? Stefan -- LinuxBIOS mailing list LinuxBIOS(a)openbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

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[LinuxBIOS] Asking help for serial output
by Frank Samuel 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

Dear all, Pretty new to linuxbios. I worked for a week to try to get serial output of linuxbios but failed. Hope someone can help me here. I tried two motherboards, Iwill/DK8S2 and tyan/s2882. Compiled succesfully and get a linuxbios.rom and flashed them to chip using flash_rom. But I didn't see any output via serial port. Can someone tell me what could be the causes. Thanks in advance. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[LinuxBIOS] Using SATA HDD
by Edwin Morales 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

How do you get the SATA 0 HDD to load using Etherboot-5.2.6 on a Tyan 2891. I've built a filo.zelf payload and using hde2:/ as the boot parameter but it's returning No Device found. Thanks /ed

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[LinuxBIOS] BIOS Saver discontinued
by Jeff Carr 20 Sep '05

20 Sep '05

According to the manufacturer, they are out of the BIOS Saver's and do not plan on manufacturing more. I tried to inquire about what quantity was needed to get them to make more, but didn't hear back from them. This is disappointing. Either the PLCC package was designed to protect the motherboard socket, or it was designed to discourage people from doing bios work. It's horrible. Every time you remove the chip it bends the pins around. It's only a matter of time until the pins break off. Despite being careful with a small screwdriver and even using a PLCC chip puller. Fry's only has one and it's not well designed. I don't fish so I don't have fishing string for that other seemingly troublesome trick. It would be helpful if there was a chip socket that could be pulled straight up with one's fingers. Perhaps there are enough engineers and interest that we could cleverly design such a device (or something else ingenious) and have a bunch of them made? Along the same lines, has anyone tried using different size SST chips? I tried to duplicate the 256KB bios by putting it in a 512KB chip (SST 28SF040A vs 39SF020A). This didn't seem to work (no beep or video but didn't try port 80 parallel card yet). Perhaps someone knows if this should work. Can someone recommend a good place to get a handful of SST 39SF02A PLCC chips for these experiments? Thanks, Jeff

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[LinuxBIOS] i think this is right : open/linux bois
by Martin Gooderham 20 Sep '05

20 Sep '05

:) do i just compile unknown source and write to /bios

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Re: [LinuxBIOS] A question about compiling linuxBIOS
by Stefan Reinauer 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

* Frank Samuel <windrainman(a)yahoo.com> [050916 21:22]: > Then flash_rom is used to > flash the image to the IWILL DK8S2 machine. But after > doing this and reboot the machine, it never comes up. > Is there something wrong with the procedures I > performed? Greatly appreciated. How big is your flash chip? How big is the image you are burning? Do you have a serial cable attached to the machine and the correct baud rate set? Stefan

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[LinuxBIOS] PLCC removal trick
by Dave Ashley 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

I don't know about anyone else but the dental floss idea didn't work at all for me, the floss interferes with the pins. I had this idea on how to remove the chip easily, but I haven't tried it. Just get some strong epoxy and glue onto the top surface of the flashrom something to act as a handle. After it's dry, use that to pull the chip out. JB Weld might work. -Dave

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