I'm trying to get etherboot and linuxbios running on a supermicro p4dpe.
The config file I'm using is below. It builds okay, and I get a romimage of around 460k (not sure why it isn't 524288), but when I burn it (using flash_and_burn), it doesn't seem to work. I get no output on the serial port. Note that I have BOOT_IDE set to 1 because at this point I would be happy just to see it boot anything, and I have linux on the ide hard disk. Does BOOT_IDE do what I think it does, or is that for something else? Is there something wrong with my config file, or should I use some other flash program for this board? I tried the one from supermicro, and doesn't seem to like my romimage file, it exits with "cannot close filehandle".
Also, a few other questions...
Does linuxbios cause a beep or do anything so that when the machine is powered on I would have some clue that it is working?
Since I'm using the etherboot elf image as a payload, the linux and commandline directives in the config file do nothing, right?
What does USE_FALLBACK_IMAGE do exactly?
LinuxBios Config file:
target supermicro mainboard supermicro/p4dpe option USE_FALLBACK_IMAGE=0 option ROM_SIZE=524288 option ROM_IMAGE_SIZE=49152 option SERIAL_CONSOLE=1 option TTYS0_BAUD=9600 option TTYS0_BASE=0x3f8 option TTYS0_LCS=0x3 option DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL=9 option MAXIMUM_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL=8 option USE_ELF_BOOT=1 option BOOT_IDE=1 payload ../eepro100.elf option CPU_CLOCK_MULTIPLIER=XEON_X17 option MAINBOARD_POWER_ON_AFTER_POWER_FAIL=MAINBOARD_POWER_ON linux /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14 commandline root=/dev/hda2 console=ttyS0,9600 single