On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 10:22:04AM +0200, Coquelicot wrote:
I have a brand new VIA EPIA M-II (with 1 GHz CPU) motherboard that I would like to boot faster than by factory default (carputer projects). I have following purchased BIOS Savior from FrozenCPU : RD1-PMC2 but it seems that it is the wrong one
Yes, unfortunately it is. The M-II uses parallel flash so you need RD1-PL (2Mbit, 256kb) or RD1-PL4 (4Mbit, 512kb). These models are no longer in production and may be difficult to come by.
I am tempted to do the direct flashing (ie. without the BIOS Savior) but I know that's pretty risky...
I strongly suggest to at least get some extra flash chips. SST39SF040-70-4C-NHE will work well. Glue plastic push pin knobs to the top of the chips for a nice handle.
especially that I want the motherboard boot Linux from CF port (I read the howto and I think I know what to do) which can be tricky.
Note that I don't know if anyone has actually gotten this to work. I made some effort about a year ago but there were issues. There was some discussion on this very topic about one month ago too, look for a thread in the archive either late September or beginning of October.
//Peter