Any ides on how to build a confing for the 82855GME northbridge? I am having no end of problems setting up linux bios on my LV-671 motherboard. Been working on this board for a few weeks now. I have two other system running Linux BIOS with out any problems, but they are both 440bx systems. This system is running a north bridge that is not supported (82855GME), yet. First and for most, to get the system booting. As of yet I have been unable to get the system to boot, console or vga output. So far I have built up a custom config basted on the tyan tiger board already in the motherboard folder, but had very little luck compiling and none booting. The flash ROM chip is 512KB in size; I am hoping to fit the whole Linux bios on that; just enough to boot the main kernel off the disk.. I have a nice flash burner, and have no issues with bad flash's, I can always reflash with the stock bios. I would like to stay away from having to buy a DOC for this system. The motherboard has built on CF (compact flash) if I can't fit the whole Linux bios on the flash ROM, then I am going to try to boot from the ROM and switch to the CF, but this may be the same idea as booting from HDD. The whole point of this is to get my system to boot faster. I would like to build this into my car as an embedded MP3 player. I have almost every thing running correctly in Linux, MP3's, GPS, Hibernate(suspend to disk) but need a faster boot time. Any ideas or help on getting a config running for this board would be of great help. -Adam Talbot
System specs: Gentoo Linux 1.5GHz PM CPU 512MB ddr 60GB HDD 32MB CF card Supre IO: w83627hf Northbridge: 82855GME Southbridge: 82801db
(The link to my board) http://www.commell.com.tw/Product/SBC/LV-671.HTM
carcomp # lspci 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) 0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82) 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) 0000:01:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev 80) 0000:01:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)