On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 13:25 +0100, Ben Hewson wrote:
Fredrik Tolf wrote:
On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 04:48 -0500, Richard Smith wrote:
Something must be different with the Com port on that board.
Alternatively, what flash chip are you using? I don't know about your EPIA 5000, but my EPIA V came with a 256 KiB flash chip from the factory, and I bought a 512 KiB one that I'm playing with. That means, however, that when I'm making a 256 KiB LinuxBIOS flash image, I have to make sure to prepend it with 256 KiB of padding, to ensure that it hits the top of the address space.
I have a bios savour installed which has the original bios in it and I am using the on-board flash for linuxbios. Both are 256k (39SF020A) part.
I see, then that's probably not it. I'm "hotplugging" the BIOS chips by hand.
I am assuming, maybe wrongly that EPIA V and the EPIA 5000 are the same board.
Since you're using SDRAM, I cannot imagine there being any larger differences, but just for reference, my board has a VT8601A northbridge and a VT8231 southbridge. If your board are using the same, then I guess that they are at least functionally equivalent.
Fredrik Tolf