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more 440BX fun
by Jeffrey Knight 07 Feb '03

07 Feb '03

I still haven't had any luck getting linuxBIOS to work, but with the knowledge that my motherboard should be supported, I'm not giving up! I tried following the instructions at cwlinux.com for installing linuxBIOS, but they're so completely different than the instructions in the HOWTO directory of the linuxBIOS code directory, I got pretty confused. Plus, all they seem to offer is .rpm's which is less than helpful. So back to following the steps for l440gx (although my motherboard is a l440Bx) ... The first thing I did was configure by running the python script. This looked fine (I attached the output) but when I go to the l440bx directory (that the configure scipt creates) and do: #make I get the following: root@krs1:/home/freebios/util/config/l440bx # make Makefile:554: warning: overriding commands for target 'c_start.o' Makefile:539: warning: ignoring old commands for target 'c_start.o' gcc -x assembler-with-cpp -DASSEMBLY -E ... crt0.S > crt0.s gcc ... -o crt0.o crt0.s crt0.s: Assembler messages: crt0.s:662: Error: suffix or operands invalid for 'cmp' crt0.s::2028: Warning: Indirect jmp without '*' make: *** [crt0.o] Error 1 Does that mean anything to anyone? My config file looks good, and i pointing to the correct vmlinux, although there's nothing special about my kernel (it's not patched since I don't see a l440bx patch in the patches directory). The l440bx config file says something about using a specific kernel, but since Ron said to just grab the latest kernel code from cwlinux, I take it I can ignore that. My understanding is once I get this to make correctly, I do a "make phlash" all that's left to do is use (in my case) intel's bios update util (iflash.exe) to update my flash with the new linuxBIOS. Am I close to being on the right track? Thanks! Jeff >From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich(a)lanl.gov> >To: Jeffrey Knight <jefight(a)hotmail.com> >CC: linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org >Subject: Re: 440BX >Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 13:33:17 -0700 (MST) > >On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Jeffrey Knight wrote: > > > There's no docs under freebios\freebios\HOWTO\ for 440BX; is building >for > > the 440BX analogous to building for the L440GX? (I see the > > l440bx-test12.config file in the util directory.) > >yes, it is very similar. > >I would welcome suggestions on how to write up a procedure that will work >across all the motherboards. I'm stumped. Flowchart? now sure. > > > followed the HOWTO for L440GX and grabbed a 2.4.0-test12 kernel. > > But according to the HOWTO for L440GX, I need to patch the kernel with: > > freebios\src\kernel_patches\linux-2.4.0-test12-l440gx.patch > > which doesn't exist. > >that's my fault, sorry. If you want just get a 2.4.20 kernel at >cwlinux.com, it should work fine. > > > Yet according to the HOWTO at \freebios\src\kernel_patches\HOWTO: > > "For 440BX users: irq_route.diff is Tyson Sawyer's patch to properly >handle > > LINUXBIOS kernels. It has been tested on 2.4.0-test6 kernels." > > ... so should I use a 2.4.0-test6 instead of a 2.4.0-test12 kernel, and > > patch it with irq_route.diff for a 440BX? > >I'm sorry those docs are so out of data. If you are willing to suffer >through getting this going and can send me updated docs you would really >be helping us out. > >ron _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

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Re: Disk on Chip for a Jetway 694TAS Socket 370 motherboard ?????
by Ronald G. Minnich 07 Feb '03

07 Feb '03

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Diarmid Vaughan wrote: > Motherboard - Jetway 694TAS socket 370 with a VIA chipset. what via chipset? ron

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Disk on Chip for a Jetway 694TAS Socket 370 motherboard ?????
by Diarmid Vaughan 07 Feb '03

07 Feb '03

Hello, I am looking for a Disk On Chip and ZIF socket for my type of Motherboard. My BIOS chip has 2 sides with 7-pins and 2 sides with 9-pins. If anyone can help me with this I would be grateful because I am interested in the LinuxBIOS project. Motherboard - Jetway 694TAS socket 370 with a VIA chipset. E-MAIL - 04.vaughan.diarmid(a)exmouthcollege.devon.sch.uk Thanks for reading my message

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giving the user a boot option
by John Allen 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

Does anyone think it is possible the offer the user a choice of commandline parameters. I would like to use the serial console, or something else convienient, to allow the user to choose commandline1 or commandline2. One of them mounts root over nfs, the other from the hard drive. I guess this would be a simplified boot loader such as lilo or grub. Unfortunately this 'boot loader' must reside in the flash chip, since my hard drive will initially be completely blank. John

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mkelfImage-2.2 and the kernel exec source code, and the elfboot toolkit
by Gregg C Levine 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

Hello from Gregg C Levine Eric a number of questions have arisen. First of all, in the readme files for the kernel exec source code, you recommend that I obtain the elfboot toolkit. The suggested reason, is that its because there is a client for the kexec function inside it. Obviously the make elfImage version that you just supplied is the recommended version so that's not a problem. But what finally happened with the elfboot toolkit? For that matter, is any work being done regarding the kexec source code? ------------------- Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon(a)worldnet.att.net ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke." Obi-Wan Kenobi (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi ) (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda )

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Tiger MPX
by Jarmo Tulonen 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

Hello I'm still struggling with the Tyan Tiger MPX (aka S2466). I tested this time with the programs I downloaded from ftp.lnxi.com, compiling from the tar packet and using etherboot 5.1.5 as payload. It loads the kernel from the tftp server but when it should jump to the kernel, it just dies. I also tried with the pre-made rom image from the rpm-package, with the same result. If I load etherboot from floppy, it gets the kernel from the tftp server and starts it up ok. Any ideas how to proceed ? Regards : Jarmo

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[ANNOUNCE] mkelfImage-2.2
by ebiederman＠lnxi.com 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

mkelfImage 2.2 is a bug fix release, available at: ftp://ftp.lnxi.com/pub/src/mkelfImage/mkelfImage-2.2.tar.gz rpm -bb mkelfImage-2.2.tar.gz builds a binary rpm. In some cases when working with the latest versions of etherboot the i386 stub code would get confused and use the wrong table address. The result is that the kernel image would just hang. That problem is now fixed. Eric

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more on objcopy
by Ronald G. Minnich 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

ok, I think objcoyp is doing the right thing. Whew! Here are the sections: [Nr] Name Type Addr Off Size ES Flg Lk Inf Al [ 0] NULL 00000000 000000 000000 00 0 0 0 [ 1] .rom PROGBITS ffff4000 001000 002400 00 AX 0 0 8 [ 2] .payload PROGBITS ffff6400 003400 0049b3 00 WA 0 0 1 [ 3] .reset PROGBITS fffffff0 007ff0 000010 00 A 0 0 1 [ 4] .id PROGBITS ffffffd3 007fd3 00001d 00 A 0 0 1 [ 5] .text PROGBITS fffffff0 007ff0 000000 00 AX 0 0 4 [ 6] .data PROGBITS fffffff0 007ff0 000000 00 WA 0 0 4 [ 7] .bss NOBITS fffffff0 008ff0 000000 00 WA 0 0 4 [ 8] .shstrtab STRTAB 00000000 008ff0 000045 00 0 0 1 [ 9] .symtab SYMTAB 00000000 0091f0 0010e0 10 10 bf 4 [10] .strtab STRTAB 00000000 00a2d0 0010f8 00 0 0 1 The .rom starts at 0xffff4000, which gives you a 49152-byte section. I think the .ldscript is giving a fixed-size linuxbios without regard to how big it actually is, which means tuning via things like max log message etc. is no longer a real option. It also means my etherboot, which is 17K, no longer fits together with linuxbios into 64K. OK, back to the drawing board :-) ron

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objcopy -O binary behaviour
by Ronald G. Minnich 05 Feb '03

05 Feb '03

this is interesting and I just hit it. objcopy -O binary appears to be rounding the output to the page size. So, in some cases, your binary will GROW, not shrink, when you do this: objcopy -O binary linuxbios linuxbios.strip So for example I have a 46024-byte linuxbios, which grows to 49152 bytes AFTER it is stripped. most inconvenient. I'm trying to figure out what makes this happen. It's not a great thing, however. Even older objcopy's do it, e.g. 2.13.90.2 does it, but so does 2.11.90.0.8 I love BFD but somedays I think it wants to kill me. ron

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X and linuxbios
by Alessio Sangalli 05 Feb '03

05 Feb '03

Are there known problems with XFree86 and linuxbios? I use a pcchips motherboard with linuxbios from cwlinux.com, and when I start Xfree86 it says 'v_bios not found' and refuses to start. Any hints? -- How to build a lirc receiver http://www.manoweb.com/alesan/lirc

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