lists@seicento.selfip.org wrote:
Hi all ... I'm about to make my first attempt to boot my MII6000E from the onboard CF adapter so pleas forgive my possibly stupid questions.
I have a few questions regarding this: VIA's fartboot firmware tells me that it's mandatory to use mkelfImage on
^^^^^^^^ is this intentional :-)
bothe kernel and initrd, is this also true for linuxBIOS ?
Yes. Claim is that fartboot is actually linuxbios; who knows?
Even if vga bios is copied over from original flash will video be blank untill kernel initializes the video card or will it be possible to see the tipical "loading linux ......" and consequent tipical kernel messages on video ?
if vga is enabled in linuxbios, you'll see all output.
If the latter is possible would I need to avoid passing console to be serial amongst the kernel options ?
yes.
According to documentation on the linuxBIOS home http://www.linuxbios.org/index.php/Payloads the etherboot payload has bothe ide and net boot capabilities ... will this let me boot from the onboard CF adapter ?
yes.
What adjustments must I make to the EPIA-M-howto documentation to use the etherboot payload ?
Someone else will have to answer that.
I can never get etherboot to build :-)
ron