On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 05:03:14AM +0900, Jun OKAJIMA wrote:
FreeBIOS1: I tried with both util/config/epia.conf and epia800.conf, but both failed. epia.conf does not run. it shows weird and buggy chars. must be runaway.
I don't think so. Try changing the serial port speed in the terminal program, first try half the speed and if that doesn't work try experimenting. I seem to recall that the EPIA builds had a problem with serial port init and that made the port run at 57600 instead of 115200.
epia800.conf runs. but does not load a payload. just ended up with "bad gzip magic numbers" after had execed pc80/ide_* stuff.
Same for all payloads? I guess there's a problem with RAM then.
FreeBIOS2: Just did not work. it seems not to work totally, because even VGA sync signal does not comes. BTW, how to enable VGA debugging output?
Initializing VGA is very complex and the code for bringing VGA up in LinuxBIOS has not been around for too long. I suggest you experiment further with the v2 code, v1 is no longer developed and unsupported, and stick to the serial console.
//Peter