Okay,
I tried awardeco, and it DOES NOT list the VGA ROM, but CBROM (under the "dosbox" emulator) worked well.
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?
Borg No. One wrote:
Hi.
The VIA EPIA BIOS is an Award/Phoenix Award BIOS, so it contains lh5/lha compressed modules. With a hex editor and/or lha/lh5 unpacker you can extract the VGABIOS from the VIA EPIA BIOS file.
Using "CBROM"/"CBROM32"/"Award BIOS Editor"/..., you can see that the BIOS file contains following BIOS modules:
CBROM32 V1.45 [08/03/04 Release] (C)Phoenix Technologies 2001-2004
******** i0100113.bin BIOS component ********No. Item-Name Original-Size Compressed-Size Original-File-Name
- System BIOS 20000h(128.00K) 12B3Fh(74.81K) i0100113.BIN
- XGROUP CODE 0ACE0h(43.22K) 079D2h(30.46K) awardext.rom
- ACPI table 030B9h(12.18K) 01408h(5.01K) ACPITBL.BIN
- EPA LOGO 0168Ch(5.64K) 002AAh(0.67K) AwardBmp.bmp
- GROUP ROM[ 0] 054D0h(21.20K) 025DEh(9.47K) _EN_CODE.BIN
- YGROUP ROM 04AA0h(18.66K) 031DFh(12.47K) awardeyt.rom
- LOGO BitMap 4B30Ch(300.76K) 02ECBh(11.70K) vpsd.bmp
- VGA ROM[1] 0FA00h(62.50K) 0947Ah(37.12K) MVPSD_15.rom
- PCI ROM[A] 0A000h(40.00K) 05FF2h(23.99K) pxe.lom
Total compress code space = 35000h(212.00K) Total compressed code size = 336B7h(205.68K) Remain compress code space = 01949h(6.32K)
** Micro Code Information **Update ID CPUID| Update ID CPUID| Update ID CPUID| Update ID CPUID ----------------+------------------+------------------+------------------ SLOT1 13 0630|
If you should use "CBROM", then just use following command to extract the VGA BIOS:
"CBROM i0100113.bin /VGA extract"
PS: ... the VIA EPIA has a nice BIOS logo. ;)
http://bnobtc.pix-art.com/images/bioslogo --> via_vpsd.png
I've downloaded the 1.13 version of the Epia Via BIOS, which should solve my VGA issues. Thing is, I can't seem to find a valid VGA BIOS within this file -- Is there a magic trick to extracting this?
Bios file: http://www.via.com.tw/download/mainboards/1/0/i0100113.bin