Hi,
Thanks for everyone who helped me building the LinuxBIOS V2 on epia board. I fixed two problems during trying to use FILO to boot a kernel in hard disk.
1) One memory module is broken. I did not use memtest86. It takes too long time. I just remove a very old memory module, the filo can reach the last step.
2) hard disk should be set as MASTER. It has been set as slave. So I got error message: no IDE dev at channel 0.
Right now the booting of kernel stopps at initialize AGP stuff, following is the error message before the kernel crashes: ******************************************** Initializing Cryptographic API Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected VIA Apollo MVP4 chipset agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 96M 0
LinuxBIOS-1.1.6.0Fallback Fri Jul 9 14:06:03 PDT 2004 starting... ***********************************************
I have several questions: 1) DO i need to enable GP_APERTURE_SIZE? And how to set the value? (i.e. by byte or M )
2) Does the kernel need patch? Right now, I am using 2.6.7 pure kernel.
Thanks a lot.
Simon Cheng www.msica.com