Neither Bochs/ADLO or Etherboot try to "initialize" the ide controllers. Rather they just detect them and assume that they've already been initialized. Perhaps you can check to see if the ide controllers are initialized in your linuxbios southbridge code? It's usually trivial to do. Great to hear that video works in ADLO, that part is turning out to work a lot more often then i really anticipated.
- Adam Agnew
On Wed, 14 May 2003, bendany wrote:
If you'd like to see if you can get ADLO with video working on that board, that would be good.
- Adam Agnew
I have tested the tx97le with ADLO. apply the ADLO 440bx patch. and I use the etherboot to load ADLO from network, works. but get some problems. I use a 3c905cx netcard & a winfast S600DX videocard.
seems that bochs couldn't init the IDE controller. and vga display works.
======================== Bochs BIOS, 1 cpu, $Revision: 1.1 $ $Date: 2002/11/25 02:07:53 $ [BOCHS BIOS VER:1.79] [COMPILE DATE:May 11 2003 TIME:19:16:53]
DEVICE:0
int13_harddisk: function 02, unmapped device for DL=80 Boot from Hard Disk 0 failed FATAL: Could not read the boot disk =========================
I also try the polled IDE patch for the etherboot.
========================= Bochs BIOS, 1 cpu, $Revision: 1.1 $ $Date: 2002/11/25 02:07:53 $ [BOCHS BIOS VER:1.79] [COMPILE DATE:May 11 2003 TIME:19:16:53] DEVICE:0
ROM segment 0xc800 length 0x8000 reloc 0x9400 int15: Func 24h, subfunc 01h, A20 gate control not supported Etherboot 5.0.6 (GPL) ELF for [EEPRO100]
Trying polled ide Waiting for ide disks to spin up This is a hard coded delay and longer than necessary. I am now initializing the ide system Controller 0: detect FAILED Initializing the main controller failed! =========================
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