Hello,
I'm hoping to get Linuxbios running on a Fabiatech FB2510 PC/104 cpu board. It's quite similar too the existing advantech/pcm-5823 motherboard. It has a GX1 Northbridge/CPU, CS5530 Southbridge, SMC FDC37B787 SuperIO, and RTL8139C 10/100 Ethernet.
It has a 2-MBit SST39SF020A flash in a PLC-32 package, so DOC is not an option. But it appears there are included utilities for writing this flash in the Linuxbios cvs tree. Alternately I have a Universal programmer.
I'm figuring I can base my work off the pcm-5823 and other GX1/CS5530 based motherboard configurations.
What are the areas I may have to customize for FB2510? I'm willing and able to dig into the source code if necessary. Just point me to where it is necessary. Is there any information I'm going to have to ask Fabiatech for?
My goal is to boot with Linuxbios along with the ide_disk driver from Etherboot. The Linux kernel and initrd/rootfs will be on an IDE flash drive.
I'm currently using a FAT16 formatted IDE Flash with the very simple syslinux bootloader, which loads a bzImage and gzipped initrd/rootfs.
How do I get Linux onto an IDE device so Etherboot's ide_disk driver will load the kernel and my initrd?
Thanks,
Joey Nelson