Yeah, Slasdot obviously is not intended to be used as a message forum for lingering discussion.
Ron has a working image that was used for what I gather is a similar mainboard. Output from lspci would also be helpful so that we can make sure the hardware on your board is the same as the hardware on ours (Whatever came in the ITuner Minibox M-100's).
P.S. I cc'd this e-mail to the mailing list ( http://www.clustermatic.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2003-December/ ) since the EPIA is a rather popular platform and others might be able to offer help in this matter.
Etherboot can boot a kernel over a LAN, and IDE disk, floppy, and probably some others too. Are you using an ethernet bridge like a Linksys WET11 or an add-in PCI or USB wireless device?
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Sonam Chauhan wrote:
[ Re: http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=87041&cid=7567224 ]
Hi - Thanks for offering to help with your experience flashing VIA EPIA mini-ITX mainboards. Sorry, I didn't see your reply until recently. :)
You wrote:
If you're using the 500MHz/800MHz normal SDRAM version, I'll send you a ROM I used with the old freebios tree and an Etherboot payload.
That'd be great! Yes, I have the 533 MHz fanless EPIA ESP 5000 board with PC 133 SDRAM.
By etherboot, do you mean that the board can boot remotely from LAN, using the onboard ethernet port? If so, that's excellent! Out of curiosity, do you see any problem with the Mini-ITX board etherbooting via a 802.11 wireless access point it is connected to with it's ethernet interface?
With best regards, Sonam Chauhan