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Sourceforge back from the dead?
by David Hendricks 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

Today, for the first time in months, I was able to successfully checkout an entire freebios tree with CVS! For those who have ben getting "connection reset by peer" errors, I'd suggest trying again ASAP while it still works.

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Re: [Etherboot-users] S2850
by YhLu 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

But there is no entry for 0x1653 in tg3.c YH. -----邮件原件----- 发件人: ebiederman(a)lnxi.com [mailto:ebiederman@lnxi.com] 发送时间: 2003年9月19日 15:39 收件人: YhLu 抄送: 'Etherboot-users'; linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org 主题: Re: [Etherboot-users] S2850 YhLu <YhLu(a)tyan.com> writes: > Eric, > > Does the Etherboot 5.2.0 support Broadcom 5705? > > The device id is 0x1653. Now it does. Eric

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S2850
by YhLu 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

Eric, Does the Etherboot 5.2.0 support Broadcom 5705? The device id is 0x1653. Regards Yinghai Lu

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about FILO ........
by gimyung han 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

I just tested FILO on my EPIA machine............ it works fine, buf I just want to confirm that the image to be use by FILO should be elf image ? (which was combined with kernel image by mkelfimage utility..) I mean, can't FILO can use kernal image to boot linux? I just want to confirm it. _________________________________________________________________ 전세계인이 함께하는 웹 메일 서비스인 MSN Hotmail을 만나 보세요. http://loginnet.passport.com/login.srf?id=2&svc=mail&cbid=24325&msppjph=1&l…

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Help needed (LinuxBIOS & FILO on EPIA5000)
by Sven Lübke 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

Hi all! I tried to install LinuxBIOS in my EPIA board, but with no luck. I don't have a serial null-modem cable, so I can't see debugging information :-(. I read the HOW TO for EPIA boards and used FILO as payload, cause I want to boot from IDE. In FILO I edited the file "Config" and changed only: AUTOBOOT_FILE = "hda5:/vmlinuz" FILO compiles without problems and creates an ELF file, which is 34 KB in size. Then I edited the file "epia.config" (changed only "payload /root/filo-0.1/filo.elf"), ran the python script, executed "make clean" and "make" in the target folder and linuxbios compiles with no problem. I burned the file "romimage" into the flash, rebooted but nothing is happening :-((. I tried the same with extracting the VGA-Bios and creating a combined payload with no result also! Am I doing something wrong? I have three questions anyway: 1. In "epia.config" there is the option PAYLOAD_SIZE! Do I have to change it to the size of the "filo.elf" payload?? I tried it, but it's not working nevertheless... 2. Is FILO compatible with the ext3 filesystem? I am using it in my root partition, but read, that ext2 and ext3 are compatible! Is that my failure? 3. Is VGA support for the EPIA5000 possible in this combination? Thanks for your help! Best regards, Sven

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Re: Opteron ECC Syndrome Issues
by ebiederman＠lnxi.com 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

Stefan Reinauer <stepan(a)suse.de> writes: > Eric, > > with the latest CVS I am seeing memory errors on all addresses of the > second dimm module in our solo systems. This does not happen on the > HDAMA. Memory size is correctly detected though. Any good starting point > for debugging this? The first dimm module works perfectly fine. Is this ECC SDRAM? If so the current code in the public CVS tree is incorrect. To get the check bits correct the memory needs to be explicitly written to. There are also a couple of B3 stepping errata that can cause bugs like that. And I believe there is an errata that says something about the first dimm slot needing to be populated for the Athlon64. So I would start by ensuring the know errata are fixed. And testing to see what the problems follows if you swap the DIMMS. I need to push the bug fixes from my internal tree back to the public tree. This is a please bug me until I get it done request. I will see what I can do later today. Eric

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Announcing FILO
by SONE Takeshi 19 Sep '03

19 Sep '03

Hi, I wrote a bootloader, available here: http://te.to/~ts1/filo/ and here the README: This is FILO, a bootloader which loads boot images from local filesystem, without help from legacy BIOS services. Expected usage is to be burned into the BIOS ROM together with LinuxBIOS. FEATURES - Console on VGA + keyboard, serial port, or both - Line editing with ^H, ^W and ^U keys to type arbitrary filename to boot - Improved IDE driver derived from Etherboot 5.1 - Support for filesystems: ext2, fat, jfs, minix, reiserfs, and xfs - Full support for the ELF Boot Proposal (where is it btw, Eric?) - Auxiliary tool to compute checksum of ELF boot images - Full 32-bit code, no BIOS calls REQUIREMENT Only i386 PC architecture is currently supported. Recent version of GNU toolchain is required to build. I have tested with Debian/woody (gcc 2.95.4, binutils 2.12.90.0.1, make 3.79.1) and Debian/sid (gcc 3.3.2, binutils 2.14.90.0.5, make 3.80). INSTALL First invokation of make creates the default Config file. $ make Edit this file as you like. It's fairly straightforward (I hope). $ vi Config Then running make again will build filo.elf, the ELF boot image of FILO. $ make Use filo.elf as your payload of LinuxBIOS, or a boot image for Etherboot. USING At "boot:" prompt, type the name of your boot image in the form: devicename:filename (eg. hda1:/boot/kernel.elf). FILO supports only IDE hard disk (or compatible) for now. The devicename for IDE disk is same as in Linux (eg. hda1 means the first partition of master device on primary controller). FILO can boot any bootable ELF images, which include Linux converted by mkelfImage, Etherboot .elf and .zelf, Memtest86, FILO itself, etc. If AUTOBOOT_FILE is set in Config, FILO tries to boot this file first, and falls back to boot: prompt if it fails. If AUTOBOOT_DELAY is also set, FILO waits specified time in seconds for a key hit before booting AUTOBOOT_FILE. Otherwise it tries to boot AUTOBOOT_FILE immediately unless a key stroke is waiting. BUG REPORTING If you have trouble, set DEBUG_ALL in Config and send its console output to me at <ts1(a)tsn.or.jp>. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I have taken pieces of code and learned concepts from various standalone programs including GNU GRUB, Etherboot, polled IDE patch by Adam Agnew, Memtest86, LinuxBIOS, and Linux. I must say thanks to all the developers of these wonderful software, especially to Eric Biederman for his great development work in this area. LICENSE Copyright (C) 2003 by SONE Takeshi <ts1(a)tsn.or.jp> and others. This program is licensed under the terms of GNU General Public License. See the COPYING file for details. -- Takeshi

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EPIA Up
by Nathanael Noblet 18 Sep '03

18 Sep '03

Hello, I just wanted to say thanks to everyone that has worked on linuxBIOS. my EPIA board is fully functioning... um no wait, without VGABIOS.. but thats the next step. Its been keeping me at the console for a little too long, but I had a board that I tried porting over and realize the amount of work to get these things working like this. Either way it works and I'm liking it. the Filo bootloader is great, simplifies the load process significantly. I stayed up WAY too late playing with this thing. It felt almost like Christmas... So anyway thanks. -- 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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Re: Any story to boot from Hard Disk
by YhLu 18 Sep '03

18 Sep '03

It's interesting, so it support to file system, while Etherboot only scan first 32 sectors to find the elf. Eric, When using Etherboot 5.2 with LinuxBIOS, does it still support boot from floppy disk? My boss said that if I can flash BIOS only with Floppy under LinuxBIOS, then We could ship some MBs with LinuxBIOS. YH. -----邮件原件----- 发件人: SONE Takeshi [mailto:ts1@cma.co.jp] 发送时间: 2003年9月18日 6:59 收件人: gimyung han 抄送: Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org 主题: Re: Any story to boot from Hard Disk On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:19:57AM +0000, gimyung han wrote: > Is anyone tried to boot LinuxBIOS from Hard Disk not using etherboot? > > I heard that etherboot can also boot ide devices........... > > But I don't know how to do it......... > > Thanks for any help Check out this: http://te.to/~ts1/filo/ _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

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Any story to boot from Hard Disk
by gimyung han 18 Sep '03

18 Sep '03

Is anyone tried to boot LinuxBIOS from Hard Disk not using etherboot? I heard that etherboot can also boot ide devices........... But I don't know how to do it......... Thanks for any help _________________________________________________________________ 증권 정보 가장 빠르고 편하게 보실 수 있습니다. MSN 증권/투자 http://www.msn.co.kr/stock/

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