Hi all
I ve been lurking on this list for some time. Has linuxbios been ported to the Via p4m266A mobo? (vt8633, vt8235, IT8705) If not can i do it?. Basically i would like to boot from a usb thumb drive (transcend 512Mb). The problem is that the bios recognizes the usb only as a floppy and if it is a dos fat16 partition. This makes grub and lilo unusable (unless i waste 16 mb on a dos partition). I am able to use syslinux though.
here is what lspci says 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3148 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 80) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 80) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 80) 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3104 (rev 82) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3177 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Ethernet Controller (rev 74) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc.: Unknown device 8d04
attached output of lspci -v
Btw I am good with a solder iron and do some work with microntrollers pcs and assorted hardware.
rgds jtd