Michiel van Dijk wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if LinuxBIOS would work on my Compaq ProLiant 1850R server. The current Compaq BIOS lacks a lot of options.
The system itself is not supported yet, but all the components are. It wouldn't be very hard to port it.
I identified the following chips on the mainboard:
Super I/O: NSC PC87317 Northbridge: Intel FW82443BX Southbridge: Intel FW82371EB
SCSI: Symbios LSI 53C876 (on-board)
You'd have to extract the original option rom from the bios for this, then prepend it to linuxbios. Explore around the wiki a bit, there's a build guide for another board with a SCSI option rom, or else it's the same process as for a VGA rom.
Video: ATI Rage IIc (on-board)
There's a driver in LB for the rage, I don't know if it'll work with this particular one or not, but it can't hurt to try. This would mean no need to use the vendor BIOS. There's a tyan board that uses this, but I don't know which one(s) off the top of my head.
Best regards, Michiel.
-Corey