Does the EPIA-M have a 256KB flash or a 512KB flash? I just ran into this problem with the EPIA. If you flash the wrong size image then nothing works at all.
Greg
On 24/03/2004, at 3:02 PM, Shawn Perkin wrote:
Hello all,
I’m currently in the process of trying to get Linuxbios to work on my Via EPIA-M with no success. I have successfully complied Etherboot 5.2.0 as my payload, and performed a successful build of Linuxbios. I burned the image without any errors and rebooted the system. I then had absolutely no output on either serial port, or local display. I currently have 256 MB of ram in the unit, and have tried a build with and without the extracted vgabios.bin. I have included my config file for your review. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Shawn
# # LinuxBIOS config file for: VIA epia-m mini-itx #
target /usr/local/build/epia-m
# via epia mainboard via/epia-m
# Enable Serial Console for debugging option SERIAL_CONSOLE=1 #option SERIAL_POST=1 option TTYS0_BAUD=115200 #option TTYS0_BAUD=57600 option HAVE_FRAMEBUFFER=1 option CONFIG_VGABIOS=1 option CONFIG_REALMODE_IDT=1 dir src/bioscall option CONFIG_PCIBIOS=1 option VGABIOS_START=0xfffe0000 #addaction romimage dd if=../vgabios.bin of=romimage bs=65536 seek=2 conv=sync conv=notrunc option CONFIG_EPIAMVERSIONSTRING="5.0.0E-" __DATE__ " " __TIME__ #target /ram/freebios/obj #payload /code/bootfiles/etherboot/via6105m.ebi
option DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL=9 option DEBUG=1
# Use 256KB Standard Flash as Normal BIOS option RAMTEST=1 option USE_GENERIC_ROM=1 option STD_FLASH=1 #option ZKERNEL_START=0xfffc0000 option ROM_SIZE=262144
# payload size = 192KB option PAYLOAD_SIZE=196608
# use ELF Loader to load Etherboot option USE_ELF_BOOT=1
# Use Etherboot as our payload payload /home/shawnp/bios/etherboot-5.2.0/src/bin/via-rhine.elf # payload /opt/cwlinux/memtest86/memtest