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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 07 Feb '03

07 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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DoC question
by Paulo Richards 04 Feb '03

04 Feb '03

Maybe it's offtopic (sorry for that), but i don't know other list to ask this question. How many time can you burn a DoC? Thanx Paulo Richards

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440BX
by Jeffrey Knight 04 Feb '03

04 Feb '03

Some questions from a newbie .... I have an Intel motherboard with PII and a MP440BX PCI chipset. I know that I can do a software upgrade my BIOS using the iflash.exe util from intel. I'm trying to figure out if I can make linuxBios work. The motherboard is listed as supported. 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.) Thinking that steps for 440BX might be similar to those for L440GX, I 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. 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? Thanks for your help! Jeff _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

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