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Test post without confidentiality disclaimer (was RE: Debugging t he linuxBIOS code)
by Colin Hall 01 May '03

01 May '03

This is a test posting. > > Please do not send confidential email to public mailing lists. > > > //Peter > In response to Peter and Gregg's posts my sys admin has reconfigured our corporate mail server so that posts from me to this forum are free of confidentiality disclaimers. Hopefully this posting will not contain the automatically appended disclaimer. Thanks for your patience. Regards, Colin.

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Re: ADLO is GO
by Richard Smith 01 May '03

01 May '03

Ok. that fixed it.. ADLO is booting for me. For the list: I had to enable read and write in the shadow memory. I don't think you had to but I enabled the full range from 0c0000 to 0ffffff Adam: I added a macro that does a PCI config space write. Saves you from haveing to do all the calulations. Would you like a diff? It doesn't appear however that my video bios is getting called. I rememember seeing somewhere that I have to enable that? -- Richard A. Smith rsmith(a)bitworks.com

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Generate a config file on LinuxBIOS site
by dkotian3＠vsnl.net 01 May '03

01 May '03

Hi, Generate a config file option on LinuxBIOS site does not seem show up anything Someone has any idea on it. Basically, I was trying the etherboot option on it. Thanks and Regards Deepak

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ADLO Video is up
by Richard Smith 30 Apr '03

30 Apr '03

Adam Sulmicki wrote: > can you just diasable/remove debug patch and see what happen? i actually > never used that patch. Thats what it was. I commented out SERIAL_DEBUG and now I have text on my monitor. Dude this is COOL. Ok... Now. This board is a multi-head board so there are actually 2 69000 on the PCI bus. I also need to init the second chip as well. The way we did this under General software was to activate chip 2. run bios. Deactivate chip 2. Activate chip 1 and then re run the bios. Would I have to do such a thing for BOCHS as well or is there a better way. -- Richard A. Smith rsmith(a)bitworks.com

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ADLO no go
by Richard Smith 30 Apr '03

30 Apr '03

I'm trying to get ADLO up but once it jumps to adlo nothing happens. I've applied the serial-debug patch to ADLO but still no results. Are there any specific memory region options that I need to have enabled /disabled? Heres the snipit from my serial output. Welcome to elfboot, the open sourced starter. January 2002, Eric Biederman. Version 1.2 Using stream address 0x9c00 37:init_bytes() - zkernel_start:0xfff00000 zkernel_mask:0x0000ffff Found ELF candiate at offset 0 New segment addr 0x7c00 size 0x20400 offset 0x100 filesize 0x20400 (cleaned up) New segment addr 0x7c00 size 0x20400 offset 0x100 filesize 0x20400 Loading Segment: addr: 0x0000000007f67368 memsz: 0x0000000000020400 filesz: 0x0000000000020400 Jumping to boot code at 0x7c00 <machine is toast at this point> -- Richard A. Smith rsmith(a)bitworks.com

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Flashing Bios Success...
by Nathanael Noblet 30 Apr '03

30 Apr '03

Hello all, So I've been trying for quite some time to gain access to the bios of the SBC I'm using so I can start placing linuxbios on it. Unable to get flash_rom to work and devbios segfaulting in some pci detection functions I was a little stuck. I didn't have a floppy drive on that SBC so couldn't use the uniflash dos programmer. Well I have found a way to get a dos boot and the uniflasher working. I have saved the original bios to file, and then flashed a fresh bios with the saved bios and its all working great. So though I would love to get flash_rom working or devbios for that matter. So now I'd like to know how to proceed. I have a build that builds I really have no idea how functional it is, and I fully expect some bugs. What I would LIKE to do right now is flash the flash chip with linuxbios (ignoring the kernel for the moment) just to see if it initializes the serial output etc as I want it to. So I've looked over the HOWTOs for the other boards. My board has a DoC, but I don't want to use it yet. So I assumed that I need to flash linuxbios or linuxbios.strip onto the flash. I tried, but uniflash gives me an error #100 unable to read file??? As well, my flash is 256K and the linuxbios is 24K... do I need to pad it? As well when I do the STD_FLASH,ROM_SIZE options and such the romimage is still 900K. I though originally that I would put the romimage on the flash.. it is obviously too big... The last question I have is the boot block in the flash chip itself there are two 8K boot blocks at the beginning and end of the flash, does something specific go in that area of the flash? So can anyone enlighten me on the next step? -- 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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BIOS FLASHROMS AND COMPACT FLASH BOOT
by Deepak Kotian 30 Apr '03

30 Apr '03

Hi, My enviorment : I have a system, which has 256/512K BIOS FLASH ROMS with 32MB Compact flash IDE. And the kernel image is residing on Compact flash. I can change the partioning as per the needs for LinuxBIOS to work. I just want BOOT Linux and no other O.S for now. I wish to burn the LinuxBIOS on 256K/512K BIOS FLASHROMS. Question: 1. What should I use, ADLO,etherboot,LinuxBIOS itself supports? 2. If LinuxBIOS supports, could some give a link to a sample conifg file for the same. Please elaborate, if possible. 3. If ADLO or etherboot is to be used, can a sample config file be refered for the same.. Could someone please give some pointer on this one. Regards Deepak

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version freeze
by ron minnich 30 Apr '03

30 Apr '03

I'm pushing it off a week until I get these compile bugs worked out. So next target date for the freeze is may 8. We're close. ron

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SERIAL_POST_TSC
by ron minnich 30 Apr '03

30 Apr '03

this option now works again. Very handy for timing. ron

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Epia -m : EEPROM not found
by Philippe CABANNES 30 Apr '03

30 Apr '03

When i run the flash utility in flash_and_burn directory, it check for the rom chip but doesn´t find it. At the end it give this message : "EEPROM not found". I´m using a bios savior RD1 but i think it shouldn´t do problems. Can i use this utility with an epia-m or should i use an other one? -------------------------------------------------- Oreka ! Nous sommes l'internet moins cher ! Surfez 25% moins cher avec http://www.oreka.com

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