Re: [LinuxBIOS] Etherboot (FILO) with SATA on tyan s2895

[yhlu]

It seems some old version sata disk has problem. Can you try some new sata disk?

YH

On 5/25/06, Myles Watson  wrote:
> I decided to just add an IDE drive to boot the first kernel.  Until I had
> LinuxBIOS booting, I felt like the 512KB that the BIOS Savior gave me was
> too little to play with for adding tiny Linux. After I can reliably boot
> from the 512KB "backup" I'll think about writing over my original 1 MB :)
>
> When I boot from LinuxBIOS to the IDE drive it doesn't recognize my SATA
> drives, even though sata_nv gets loaded. They get mounted normally when I
> boot from the same drive with the factory BIOS.  Any ideas or hints?
>
> Thanks,
> Myles
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail]
> [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Myles Watson
> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 7:49 AM
> To: 'Lu, Yinghai'; [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Etherboot (FILO) with SATA on tyan s2895
>
> It's starting to seem like a long chain of events from LinuxBIOS to
> Etherboot to FILO to kernel on CF to myKernel.  I'd also like to be able to
> get to grub eventually.  Is there a way to go from LinuxBIOS to grub more
> directly on the s2895?
>
> Thanks again for your help.
>
> Myles
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lu, Yinghai [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 5:09 PM
> To: [e-mail]; [e-mail]
> Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] Etherboot (FILO) with SATA on tyan s2895
>
> You can not boot from CK804 sata directly with FILO in Etherboot.
>
> The code only support Sata that can work on compatible IDE mode.
>
> You need to use other media ( network, CF IDE flash) to load kernel with
> ck804 sata and kexec support, and use kexec to load final kernel in your
> sata disk.
>
> YH
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail]
> [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Myles Watson
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 3:57 PM
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: [LinuxBIOS] Etherboot (FILO) with SATA on tyan s2895
>
> I am booting linuxbios with etherboot and filo as the payload. I tried
> to
> follow the s2881 tutorial on the wiki.
>
> Etherboot only finds my cd-rom. When I try to use hde:/ it tells me that
> "Drive 4 does not exist". All drives up to j except hda (my cd-rom) give
> the
> same error message. Sometimes if I try hdg it hangs.
>
> I saw README.filo_in_etherboot where it says it only works on SATA port
> 1 or
> 2. I've tried on SATA 0 port 0 and 1, SATA 1 port 2 and 3.
>
> I also seem to need to boot the factory BIOS in between each attempt, or
> I
> won't get very far.
>
> Is there something simple I've missed?
>
> Thanks,
> Myles
>
> Output:
>
> Etherboot 5.4.2
> Drivers: TG3 FILO Images: NBI ELF
> Protocols: DHCP TFTP
> Relocating text ...
> Scanning PCI: found 30 devices
> Probing pci disk...
> [FILO]FILO version 0.4.1
> boot: hde3:/boot/vmlinuz... initrd=/boot/initrd...
> IDE time out
> No drive detected on IDE channel 2
> boot: hdc:/
> No drive detected on IDE channel 1