Ronald G Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov writes:
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, GNUOrder wrote:
Yes, it looks like a new BIOS addresses this problem. One more question, is there a way to write the new BIOS out from linux on this motherboard? I'm pretty sure its the Tyan Thunder i7500 (S2720). It uses amiflash.zip.
if you get a romimage the flash_rom utility can write from linux.
Before running flash_rom you have to do this: setpci -d 8086:2480 4e.b=1 to enable flash writes.
then just flash_rom <romimage>
Be very, very careful with this. Writing the rom is easy. Finding and setting all of the stupid CMOS type parameters in the romimage is a much more difficult proposition.
Which means the board will probably still require a little bit of keyboard and video attention once you are done.
Eric