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Need a hand with freebios2
by Adam Talbot 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

I was good with the tools in freebios, but I do not no my way around freebios2. Are there any "How To" guides for setting up a bios in freebios2?? -Adam Talbot

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How do i join
by Adam Talbot 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

How do i join this mailing list? -Adam

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ah yes, my config for the arima
by Ronald G. Minnich 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

# Sample config file for the Arima HDAMA target hdama.filo mainboard arima/hdama option DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL=3 option MAXIMUM_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL=9 romimage "normal" option USE_FALLBACK_IMAGE=0 option ROM_IMAGE_SIZE=0x10000 option LINUXBIOS_EXTRA_VERSION=".0Normal" payload /opt/filo/normal/filo.elf end romimage "fallback" option USE_FALLBACK_IMAGE=1 option ROM_IMAGE_SIZE=0x10000 option LINUXBIOS_EXTRA_VERSION=".0Fallback" payload /opt/filo/fallback/filo.elf end buildrom ./linuxbios.rom ROM_SIZE "normal" "fallback" that's it. nothing exciting ... ron

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interesting ...
by Ronald G. Minnich 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

this is on arima hdama. I build a linuxbios and it boots fallback. All is fine. I use cmos_util to set boot options to normal and reboot. This is fine. Then I reboot one more time. NO serial output, no nothing. NO output at all. Anyone seen this? ron

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Any ides on how to build a confing for the 82855GME northbridge?
by Adam Talbot 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Any ides on how to build a confing for the 82855GME northbridge? I am having no end of problems setting up linux bios on my LV-671 motherboard. Been working on this board for a few weeks now. I have two other system running Linux BIOS with out any problems, but they are both 440bx systems. This system is running a north bridge that is not supported (82855GME), yet. First and for most, to get the system booting. As of yet I have been unable to get the system to boot, console or vga output. So far I have built up a custom config basted on the tyan tiger board already in the motherboard folder, but had very little luck compiling and none booting. The flash ROM chip is 512KB in size; I am hoping to fit the whole Linux bios on that; just enough to boot the main kernel off the disk.. I have a nice flash burner, and have no issues with bad flash's, I can always reflash with the stock bios. I would like to stay away from having to buy a DOC for this system. The motherboard has built on CF (compact flash) if I can't fit the whole Linux bios on the flash ROM, then I am going to try to boot from the ROM and switch to the CF, but this may be the same idea as booting from HDD. The whole point of this is to get my system to boot faster. I would like to build this into my car as an embedded MP3 player. I have almost every thing running correctly in Linux, MP3's, GPS, Hibernate(suspend to disk) but need a faster boot time. Any ideas or help on getting a config running for this board would be of great help. -Adam Talbot System specs: Gentoo Linux 1.5GHz PM CPU 512MB ddr 60GB HDD 32MB CF card Supre IO: w83627hf Northbridge: 82855GME Southbridge: 82801db (The link to my board) http://www.commell.com.tw/Product/SBC/LV-671.HTM carcomp # lspci 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) 0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82) 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) 0000:01:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev 80) 0000:01:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)

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Good News of i845GV
by zhu shi song 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Now I can make intelfb work correctly. I upgrade intelfb driver of kernel 2.4.28 to 0.7.7 I have downloaded from author's website. It can work and cursor there is no problem. Linuxbios is very great work. I just grab some code from factory's bios and set northbridge and southbridge after the values of vendor's bios. I can make it boot linux 2.4.28. Out of my surprise it can support vga very well. thanks all guys who have contributed to linuxbios. zhu __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com

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i845GV VGA progress(cont.)
by zhu shi song 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

The following are messages from linuxbios V1 vgabios call: ****************** INSTALL REAL-MODE IDT DO THE VGA BIOS found VGA: vid=8086, did=2562 rom base predefined, size: fffc0000 0x55 0xaa 0x5a 0xe9 0xf7 0xab 0x30 0x30 0x30 0x30 0x30 0x30 0x30 0x30 0x30 0x30 bus/devfn = 0x10 biosint: # 0x2, eax 0x3 ebx 0xc000 ecx 0x3 edx 0x3b4 biosint: ebp 0x10fe4 esp 0xfd6 edi 0x10080 esi 0x10a5b biosint: ip 0x145b cs 0xc000 flags 0x246 biosint: Oops, exception 2 Stack contents: 0x145b 0xc000 0x0246 0xade6 0xc000 0x0046 0xac61 0xac2b 0x0000 0x0000 0x46cc 0x8798 0x8680 0x0ffa 0x0010 0xe524 0x0010 0x0010 0x0046 0x8e1d 0x0000 biosint: Bailing out *************************** is there any progress on it? tks zhu __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com

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i845gv MB progress
by zhu shi song 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Now I can set sma correctly. But still can't execute vgabios successfully. After executing testbios, the following message prompted: **************************** [root@localhost /app]# ./testbios -s 65536 ./i845.vga running file ./i845.vga No base specified. defaulting to 0xc0000 No initial code segment specified. defaulting to 0xc000 No initial instruction pointer specified. defaulting to 0x0003 c000:015a: 62 ILLEGAL X86 OPCODE! halt_sys: file ops.c, line 94 halted ************************************* what can I do to solve the problem? tks zhu __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com

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i845GV VGA progress
by zhu shi song 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

I use intelfb in linux-2.4.27. VGA of i845 can work correctly except that there is no cursor. So if there is no cursor, it's almost nothing for practical usage. Now I hope I can find some way to fix it up in intelfb. tks zhu __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com

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Re: reset loop??
by Stefan Reinauer 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

* Jay Miller <jmiller(a)actuality-systems.com> [041119 00:13]: > I thought it might be an ht issue because needs_reset gets set by the > ht_setup_chain, and our board is unique in that it has 8151->8131->8111 > all on link 0. But I adjusted the position passed into that function > and saw no improvement. Perhaps the position I chose was wrong (0xa0 vs > the default 0x80)? 80 is ldt0, a0 is ldt1, c0 is ldt2 Stefan

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