On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:45:01AM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote:
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.
Yep, let's do it. Does the board have a socketed BIOS so you can hot-swap it to have a backup chip stored away safely?
I identified the following chips on the mainboard:
Super I/O: NSC PC87317 Northbridge: Intel FW82443BX Southbridge: Intel FW82371EB
Looks good, we can support that easily.
Please send the output of 'lspci -tvnn' and 'superiotool -dV' from your board (run it as root). Also, please run the 'getpir' tool and send us the irq_tables.c file which is generated by the tool.
We can make a patch with that information then, if you're willing to test it on your hardware.
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.
Do you absolutely need the SCSI? See also Peter's post, I'm not sure if/how it may work, but you should be able to boot off of IDE just fine with LinuxBIOS if that helps.
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
Yeah, that would be very interesting to know.
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.
Uwe.