Re: epia problem/Epia status update

[Luc Belliveau]

Oh, ok.  I just tried an etherboot payload, and that loads.  So it must 
be my FILO config.  .. I don't even get the boot: prompt..

I'm going to try the etherboot ide_disk maybe and and see what that does.

Any ideas what's going on with FILO?

Luc Belliveau wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback, those lines helped.  Now I get as far as:
>
> Welcome to elfboot, the open sourced starter.
> January 2002, Eric Bierderman.
> Version 1.3
>
> And it sits there... should it be doing something else before it loads 
> up FILO, or does this mean LinuxBIOS has finished it's job and now I 
> need to play with the payload?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Luc
>
> [e-mail] wrote:
> > Ron,
> >    Consider me Pre-Pinged !
> >
> > I've already e-mailed Luc and the list, I guess you haven't caught up 
> > with your
> > e-mail yet :-)
> >
> > There is definately a need to add the following 2 lines to
> > mainboard/via/epia/Options.lb
> >
> > use CONFIG_CONSOLE_SERIAL8250
> > default CONFIG_CONSOLE_SERIAL8250=1
> >
> > Current status of my epia code is as follows :-
> >     It's booted ! All the way though LB, loaded a kernel via filo 
> > from the hard
> > disk and let me login. There are issues with the speed, the boot 
> > sequence
> > seemed painfully slow. This could be for any number of mis-configured 
> > settings
> > at my end.
> >
> > I also seem to have some spurious output before getting to the 
> > following line
> > LinuxBIOS-1.1.7.0Normal (date) starting...
> >
> > which seems to be part of the northbridge debug lines.... I haven't 
> > tracked down
> > whats going on here yet.
> >
> > At present, I'm trying to clean up the southbridge code.
> >
> > Regards
> > Mark.
> >
> > Quoting "Ronald G. Minnich" :
> > > On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Luc Belliveau wrote:
> > > > I compiled from freebios2 from cvs, when I boot all I get back from 
> > > > the serial
> > > > port is:
> > > >
> > > > LinuxBIOS-1.1.7.0Normal <date> starting..
> > > > vt8601 init starting
> > > > Slot 00 is SDRAM 04000000 bytes x2
> > > > Slot 01 is empty
> > > > Slot 02 is empty
> > > > Slot 03 is empty
> > > > vt8601 is done
> > > >
> > > > that's it.  I tried changing the DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL but when 
> > > > I do that
> > > > the resulting rom stops at Slot 00 is SDRAM 04000000 bytes x2.
> > >
> > > well we need to ping mark wilkinson, as he just committed a bunch of 
> > > fixes
> > > ...
> > >
> > > Mark?
> > >
> > > ron
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