Richard Smith wrote:
On 4/24/06, Eric Poulsen eric@zyxod.com wrote:
Okay,
I tried awardeco, and it DOES NOT list the VGA ROM, but CBROM (under the "dosbox" emulator) worked well.
Please keep track of your procedure, what tools worked and didn't work, where you got them from, etc so we can put it on the wiki.
I've done a LOT of things, but they mostly didn't work =)
When this is all over, I'll write up a set of instructions, and follow them from a clean install to see if I've got it all down.
Only one thing -- the extracted VGA ROM is _exactly_ 64000 bytes (instead of 65536) -- do I need to pad it out (with zeros?) before concatenating it with LinuxBIOS to achieve the final burnable image?
Yes. dd can snap it to the right size for you. You could also tweak your ROM_SIZE to make it match.
I've got the VGA extracted -- I'll burn it tonight and see what happens.
Assumedly:
dd if=vga.bios.bin of=vga.bios.bin.padded bs=65536 count=1 conv=sync
-- Richard A. Smith