On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:49:26PM +0300, Jouni Mettälä wrote:
Do you have a second computer and a null modem serial cable? If so, please hook it up and see what's coming out of the serial port (I hope you have the same super io).
I tried with friend laptop. It didn't give anything. Maybe I just can't use serial cable and minicom :( I hope better debug next time. Superio is w83627hf in both mainboards (ms-6178 and ms-6337)
OK, on the MS-6178 I can say for sure that serial output works in LinuxBIOS.
Quick minicom tutorial:
$ minicom -s -> Serial port setup -> Press A and enter your COM device (ttyS0 or ttyS1 or ttyUSB0 or so) -> Press E and choose "115200 8N1" (default) -> Disable Hardware and Software Flow Control (via F and G) -> Press enter to leave the menu -> Save setup as.. -> Enter "lb" -> Exit from minicom
So, from now on you can use this config like this:
$ minicom -o lb
Did you get it _that_ small? I'm using a 512KB chip, you cannot stick a kernel into that. Did you use a bigger chip?
Kernel config (I am no sure if it's the same but it is small) is minimal. It boots with proprietary bios and it is just for testing. I had no success with filo either. It is used with ubuntu dapper sources. I'll try to attach it this week.
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub [8086:1130] (rev 02) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82815 Chipset Graphics Controller (CGC) [8086:1132] (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev 01) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) [8086:2440] (rev 01) 00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 Controller [8086:244b] (rev 01) 00:1f.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 [8086:2442] (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus Controller [8086:2443] (rev 01) 00:1f.4 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 [8086:2444] (rev 01) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:2445] (rev 01) 01:00.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] [1274:1371] (rev 08) 01:02.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c978 [HomePNA] [1022:2001] (rev 52)
So this is the ms-6337, I guess? It's an i815 chipset which is similar, but not quite the same as i810. Some more work is probably needed for that.
lspnp: /proc/bus/pnp not available
Strange. Maybe you have to enable some "PnP" option in the BIOS for lspnp to work?
Uwe.