Hi , I have been trying to get linuxbios working on TUSL2-C ( 815ep chipset ) for half a year already. By using the newest patch from heechul, my motherboard still refuse to boot when trying to load the kernel. It should be a RAM init problem although it seems to be working until trying to load the etherboot ide_disk:
* Serial Presence Detect (in heechul's patch) doesn't work on TUSL2-C : smbus cannot detect correct value of RAM dimensions. ** There is a continuous beep sound (not stated in award beep codes, like ambulance :) ) if using linuxbios or no bios is inserted. * Must use aflash.exe to flash the bios. /dev/bios and uniflash doesn't work although the flash rom is recognized.
Hence, from point 2 and 3 and some comments from uniflash developer, I am suspecting some hardware protection from ASUS which prevent modification in bios by individual. I hope I am wrong and some of you can point that out.
I have the matsonic ms7057 (815ep chipset ) linuxbios source from Heechul which should be newer than the one in linuxbios source tree ( this one has RAM dimension auto detect using SPD registers).
By using this raminit.inc, three things have to be changed : configure_buffsc (no autodetect) configure_smrcomp (no autodetect) #define SMB_IO_BASE 0x1000 (IO address may vary)
It should work on ms7057 and ga-6oxe. Hope this info can help somebody in future. thx.
regards, eehuey
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