On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 09:40, Andrew Richardson wrote:
Dear All, I am new to this list and have been emailing Ron a few times about the SiS530. Ron sugested that I use FILO for my project and I have had a trawl around to find filo, and have downloaded a BZ from a fairly unreputable looking web site. Does anyone have the "official" website address at all?
Also Ron said to configure LinuxBIOS for the 530, but I thought that it was not supported by the LinuxBIOS project.
I understand (basically) the idea of having payload code (which is filo from your advice), but I think I may need some more explicit instructions: do I assume correctly that I need to flash my current 530 board bios with LinuxBIOS with a payload of filo and have filo point to boot off HDA1?
Then this leads me onto another question: can I pull a bios chip from another PC and use that to flash LB onto to use with the 530, or are some regions of the BIOS chip un-writable and/or mobo specific? If the latter then would it not be safer to get a small DoC and flash that, as I only have one 530 Mobo.
Can you still get SiS 530 board this day ? I thought it is obsoleted long time ago.
Ollie