Daniel Parthey schrieb:
Hello,
Daniel Parthey wrote:
I tried to get LinuxBIOS Rev 2163 running on an VIA EPIA-ML6000EA Board using the EPIA-M target. The kernel is on /dev/hda1 of an IDE harddisk.
Note that I'm using an EPIA ML, not an M board.
it boots, network is working, but vga output fails
Maybe the EPIA-M HOWTO should tell that one needs to extract the VGA BIOS from EPIA-M Bios Version 1.13 if one wants to use graphics on EPIA-ML.
Thats right, an extracted vga.rom from this version works for the ML, too.
DO THE VGA BIOS found VGA: vid=1106, did=3122
if you later want to use the X via driver modul, you should remember on 3122 this is the ID Number you need to change in the vgabioa.c if I remember right.
rom base, size: fffc0000 write_protect_vgabios bus/devfn = 0x100 biosint: # 0x6, eax 0x5f53 ebx 0x101 ecx 0x19f88 edx 0xe093 biosint: ebp 0x19090 esp 0x39d8 edi 0xfa90 esi 0x1a539 biosint: ip 0xc763 cs 0xf000 flags 0x202 biosint: Oops, exception 6 biosint: Bailing out biosint: # 0x10, eax 0x4f14 ebx 0x18003 ecx 0x1 edx 0x0 biosint: ebp 0x19fa8 esp 0xffa edi 0x0 esi 0xffff725e biosint: ip 0x8f7e cs 0x0 flags 0x46 BIOSINT: Unsupport int #0x10 Devices initialized
I get a equal output, if I use the orginal vga.rom from factory bios version 1.16 for Epia-M
Christian Sühs told on the list, that one needs an older vga bios for that. First I will try to extract VGA Bios from BIOS 1.02 and 1.01 for the EPIA-ML.
I,m not sure, but I think they won't work. Have a look at the bios code with cbrom or any tool you want. and compare the vga rom names. If I remember right there is only one version, which works with LB and that is the vga.rom at orginal bios from epia-M Version 1.13 for the Epia-ML.
Then I will try the BIOS 1.16 for the EPIA-M.
That won't work, too.
Unfortunately, VIA has taken all other versions off the web :(
Thats right, somewhere in the List is a link to the 1.13 version.
Can I boot the EPIA-M Bios on the EPIA-ML board, or does it fail?
It fails.
ACPI: bus type pci registered [...] <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Disabling ACPI and AGPGART in the kernel fixed the problem, so this was certainly an ACPI issue. Thanks to Anton Borisov.
Boot speeds is also an issue here, it looks like we need a separate target/mainboard for the EPIA-ML in order to speed up the boot process for EPIA-ML. It also boots very slowly here, I will try Christian Sühs' changes discussed on this list in December 2005 and disable some features (like smbus?) in the EPIA-ML boot process.
Obviously, EPIA-M and EPIA-ML have different features, compare them: http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/mini_itx/epia_m/index.jsp#spec
You should disable the search for the firewire stuff, somewhere under the northbridge directory for epia-ml. If this is not disabled it tooks about 10 seconds before linuxbios boot.
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/mini_itx/epia_ml/index.jsp#spec
Regards, Daniel.
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