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IP get via Etherboot and IP get dhcpcd
by YhLu 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

Eric, I put the the dhcpcd in the initrd. After boot system with LinuxBIOS + Etherboot + elf ( with the initrd). I found the IP got by Etherboot and dhcpcd is different. I may only used fixed option in dhcpd.conf to make it get the same addr? Regards Yinghai Lu

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Puzzled. Help Please !
by Hendricks David W. 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

(Hoping this goes into the correct thread) You are correct, romimage is what you need to burn. About the ELF image thing--The payload is indeed an ELF image, and LinuxBIOS uses "elfboot" to boot it. The payload can be a normal Linux kernel made bootable by the mkelfImage utility ( ftp://ftp.lnxi.com/pub/mkelfImage/ ), a FILO image ( http://te.to/~ts1/filo/ ), or an Etherboot image ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/etherboot/ ). Perhaps someone more experienced with this can explain in further detail. >>It is flashable with any kind AWARD MS-DOS tool ? You should probably try to use with Flash 'n Burn (Check the original freebios tree) or Linux memory technology devices (MTD -- http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/ ). Sure beats booting off a FreeDOS floppy!

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DFI AZ30-TL
by Justin C. Darby 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

I have a DFI AZ30-TL sitting in the corner, now collecting dust, that I built for a little duron box in the recent past. The boards, even new, are really cheap, and I was wondering if LinuxBIOS had enough support to get ide booting (via cf adapter) and video to work on them. I want to use this board for a car-based installation, so it (the board) being cheap and maybe unreliable is no problem. :) Here are the basics I beleive have been asked for in the past: VIA® chipsets: North bridge: VIA® KM266 South bridge: VIA® VT8235CD It has normal 184-pin DDR sockets, shared ProSavage8(TM) video (which I perceive to be a problem already..), generic PCI IDE, etc. I'd attach the output of scanpci, but only kernels on the box have grsecurity running on them and scanpci needs ioperm(). If it's needed, I can get it, I'll just need to build a new kernel for the box. DFI has its generic, non-detailed specs at http://www.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product_spec_details_r_us.jsp?PRODUCT_ID=1… I have some system hacking experience, but I'm mostly a generic application developer, low level code is not entirely my forte. Thanks, Justin

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Re: Freebios1 STPC Elite development board changes attached
by Fathi BOUDRA 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

Hi, thanks for all, the compile works now. I used the redhat 7.1. with Debian stable (woody) it works also. Now i try to use the romimage with my stpc elite board but it hangs after: Call init Enabling com device: 04 iobase = 0x03f8 irq=4 after this some strange character ... On my stpc elite card, i have only 2 serial ports, no floppy, no parallel port. Maybe something goes wrong with this ... i try to use NO_KEYBOARD option set to 1 and MUST_ENABLE_FLOPPY option set to 0 but no change. if someone have an idea ..., now i'm looking into the sources. Best regards -- Fathi > These are the versions I used (from redhat 7.1): > > Program Version Used for > python 1.5.2 Configuring the BIOS. > perl 5.6.0 Used during building the image. > make 3.79.1 For orchestrating compilation etc > gcc 2.96 The C compiler. > binutils 2.10.91 Other program building tools, assembler, linker etc. > fileutils 4.0.36 dd, cp, ls, mkdir etc > textutils 2.0.11 cat etc > sed 3.02 scripts > bash 2.04.1 Command shell, shell scripts > cvs 1.11 Extracting/updating files from the external project archive > sh-utils 2.0 date etc, note some such as echo, test etc are bash built-ins > > -- > Peter Fox <peter.fox(a)aeroflex.com> Aeroflex Test Solutions > Principal Design Engineer Stevenage > Any opinions expressed above are http://www.aeroflex.com/ > not necessarily those of Aeroflex. Tel: + 44 (0) 1438 742200

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Freebios1 STPC Elite development board changes attached
by Peter Fox 23 Feb '04

23 Feb '04

Please find attached my changes to support the STPC Elite processor, and the mainboard/elite build configuration for the STPC Elite development board. These changes are for freebios1. They are mostly copies of the consumer-II stuff by Steve M. Gehlbach, but modified to remove all the graphics stuff, as the Elite has no graphics controller, and to add initialisation for the GP clock etc. I've also put in the bit-bashing SPD code for the Elite, though I don't use it on the development mainboard. I can run Redhat 7.1 fine (serial console only) using filo as the payload. This is using the 20/01/2004 snapshot for other files. -- Peter Fox <peter.fox(a)aeroflex.com> Aeroflex Test Solutions Principal Design Engineer Stevenage Any opinions expressed above are http://www.aeroflex.com/ not necessarily those of Aeroflex. Tel: + 44 (0) 1438 742200

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Testing linuxbios
by Balint Cristian 23 Feb '04

23 Feb '04

Hi ! I played a little building up few images of linuxbios but i need to know if there is a way of test these images via floppy boot to not need every time to flash ? Thanks, cristian

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Puzzled. Help Please !
by Balint Cristian 23 Feb '04

23 Feb '04

I am a little puzzled in steps of making/flashing/testing, I dont understand something at few points: First Q: So my config file, (i atempt to boot on 440bx plus Stefan's latest bk OpenBIOS) so i put it as elf payload, Is it correct ? --------------------///////////////----------------------------------------------------------> target l440bx mainboard intel/l440bx # Enable Serial Console for debugging # It will come up at 115200,8n1 option SERIAL_CONSOLE=1 option VIDEO_CONSOLE=1 # Enable MicroCode update and L2 Cache init for PII and PIII option UPDATE_MICROCODE=1 option CONFIGURE_L2_CACHE=1 # Use the internal VGA frame buffer device #option HAVE_FRAMEBUFFER=0 option USE_CACHE_RAM=0 option USE_GENERIC_ROM=1 option USE_ELF_BOOT=1 makedefine PHLASH_BASE_NAME=laci option CONFIG_UDELAY_TSC=1 option CONFIG_COMPRESS=0 payload /home/rezso/freebios/builtin.image ----------------////////--------------------------------------------------------------------------> I used todays sourceforge CVS pool. Than I obtain the following stuff after typed "make": -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3506 Feb 23 12:59 linuxbios.map -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35852 Feb 23 12:59 linuxbios_payload -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35852 Feb 23 12:59 linuxbios_payload.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65536 Feb 23 12:59 linuxbios.rom -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 524288 Feb 23 12:53 romimage I guess romimage is the one i need but the big dilema: [root@rezso l440bx]# file romimage romimage: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped It is ELF ...... will it boot from flash ? Do i need to do some special conversion over it ? It is flashable with any kind AWARD MS-DOS tool ? I readed that i need to run make phlash but always encouter errors: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------////////////////////////-------------------------------------------------------> [root@rezso l440bx]# make phlash gcc -x assembler-with-cpp -DASSEMBLY -E ... crt0.S > crt0.s gcc ... -o crt0.o crt0.s /home/rezso/freebios/src/northbridge/intel/440bx/raminit.inc: Assembler messages: /home/rezso/freebios/src/northbridge/intel/440bx/raminit.inc:478: Warning: using `%al' instead of `%eax' due to `b' suffix crt0.S:156: Warning: indirect jmp without `*' gcc ... -o version.o /home/rezso/freebios/src/lib/version.c rm -f linuxbios.a ar cr linuxbios.a linuxbiosmain.o linuxpci.o newpci.o clog2.o printk.o serial_subr.o video_subr.o subr.o vsprintf.o memset.o memcpy.o memcmp.o malloc.o elfboot.o do_inflate.o delay.o compute_ip_checksum.o version.o keyboard.o mc146818rtc.o isa-dma.o beep.o vga_load_regs.o font_8x16.o vga_set_mode.o vga_load_pcx.o ide.o boot.o linuxbios_table.o i386_subr.o params.o hardwaremain.o c_start.o northbridge.o southbridge.o superio.o mainboard.o microcode.o mtrr.o l2_cache.o cpuid.o delay_tsc.o gcc -nostdlib -r -o linuxbios_c.o c_start.o rom_fill_inbuf.o linuxbios.a /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.3.2/libgcc.a gcc -nostdlib -nostartfiles -static -o linuxbios_c -T /home/rezso/freebios/src/config/linuxbios_c.ld linuxbios_c.o nm -n linuxbios_c | sort > linuxbios_c.map objcopy -O binary linuxbios_c linuxbios_payload.bin cp linuxbios_payload.bin linuxbios_payload gcc -nostdlib -nostartfiles -static -o linuxbios -T ldscript.ld crt0.o nm -n linuxbios | sort > linuxbios.map objcopy -O binary linuxbios linuxbios.strip export size=`ls -l linuxbios.strip | (read p c u g size r ; echo $size)` ; \ echo $size ; \ dd if=linuxbios.strip of=linuxbios.rom bs=1 seek=`expr 65536 - $size` 65536 65536+0 records in 65536+0 records out make: *** No rule to make target `/home/rezso/freebios/../intel_flash_disk/laci.bi1', needed by `laci.bi1.header'. Stop. -----------------------------------------------------------------//////////////////////////////////--------------------------------------------------------> :( Thanks in advance, cristian

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Replacement for console level access on ALPHAs
by Andy Pearce 18 Feb '04

18 Feb '04

We currently run a set of systems that operator on DEC Alpha machines, these provide a console level access which we use to configure a machine remotely via the console port. Plans are afoot to migrate the systems running on the Alphas to PC (HP xw4100 machines), we will still however have the requirement to access and manage the machines when the main OS is down, select which kernel versions should be run etc. Based on what I have read about Linux Bios it seems it would be perfect for this task. Does anyone have any idea of the likelihood of the HP xw4100s motherboard being able to support LinuxBios. Many thanks Andy Pearce

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ID qghfnodftg... thanks
by malas＠pinetron.com 17 Feb '04

17 Feb '04

Yours ID gsmpdyibpsh -- Thank

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64bit intel exentions to ia32
by ebiederman＠lnxi.com 17 Feb '04

17 Feb '04

see: http://developer.intel.com/technology/64bitextensions/ Eric

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