Re: [LinuxBIOS] trying to boot gigabyte m57sli-s4

[yhlu]

you may need to reconfig your eth0. because the MAC address or pci
device id change.

acpi support may need dsdt..., and that copyright doesn't belong to Nvidia ...

we may need one cleaning room implementation...

YH

On 3/12/07, Ward Vandewege  wrote:
> Hi Yinghai,
>
> It works! Seems like your kernel options make all the difference.
>
> The machine boots with these extra parameters:
>
> apic=debug acpi_dbg_level=0xffffffff pci=noacpi,routeirq
> snd-hda-intel.enable_msi=1
>
> This works in 2.6.20.1 and 2.6.21-rc3.
>
> There's one problem: the intergrated network controller does not work.
>
> Here's a snippet from a boot with the proprietary bios:
>
> [   29.675453] forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver.
> Version 0.60.
> [   29.683267] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMAC] enabled at IRQ 5
> [   29.688967] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:08.0[A] -> Link [LMAC] -> GSI 5
> (level, low) -> IRQ 5
> [   29.697623] forcedeth: using HIGHDMA
> [   30.224777] eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01458:e000 bound to 0000:00:08.0
> [   30.231693] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
> [   30.238082] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override
> with idebus=xx
>
> Here's the equivalent booting with LinuxBIOS:
>
> [   66.416122] forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver.
> Version 0.60.
> [   66.423682] forcedeth: using HIGHDMA
> [   66.948233] eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01022:2b80 bound to 0000:00:08.0
> [   66.955144] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
> [   66.961528] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override
> with idebus=xx
>
> Booted under LinuxBIOS, there is simply no network device available. Ideas to
> get the nic to work?
>
> Also, the LinuxBIOS code does not support ACPI; would it be hard to add that?
> That's quite important in this case - it's a desktop board.
>
> I've attached the boot log with LinuxBIOS
> (minicom-gb-20070312-03-lb-2.6.21-rc3-64.cap) and a boot with a proprietary
> BIOS (minicom-gb-20070312-04-prop-2.6.21-rc3-64.cap).
>
> Thanks,
> Ward.