Richard Smith wrote:
What happens wne you boot with the current version? Don't try any vga just do serial to start with.
Well, if I boot LB alone, I get the following (at debug level 9):
[line noise?]
LinuxBIOS-1.1.8.0Normal Mon May 8 23:51:16 CDT 2006 starting... 87 is the comm register SMBus controller enabled vt8601 init starting 00000000 is the north 1106 0601 0120d4 is the computed timing NOP PRECHARGE DUMMY READS CBR MRS NORMAL set ref. rate enable multi-page open Slot 00 is SDRAM 08000000 bytes x2 0100 is the chip size 000e is the MA type Slot 01 is SDRAM 08000000 bytes x2 0100 is the chip size 000e is the MA type Slot 02 is empty Slot 03 is empty vt8601 done Copying LinuxBIOS to ram. Jumping to LinuxBIOS.
....But if I boot from the normal BIOS, and then do a soft reset, it actually works...almost. A transcript of that (not attaching as it's about 16k) is available at http://web.hawkesnest.net/users/hawke/minicom.cap.txt
interesting portion: it loads Linux (Ubuntu), and gets to:
* Loading hardware drivers... [ 30.094223] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 89000005 [ 30.118509] printing eip: [ 30.127570] c0120468 [ 30.134920] *pde = 00000000 [ 30.144278] Oops: 0002 [#1] [ 30.153623] PREEMPT [ 30.161026] Modules linked in: evdev ext3 jbd dm_mod raid1 md_mod ide_generic uhci_hcd usbcore ide_cd cdrom ide_disk via82cxxx generic processor fbcon tileblit font bitblit softcursor capability commoncap [ 30.222441] CPU: 0 [ 30.222446] EIP: 0060:[<c0120468>] Not tainted VLI [ 30.222454] EFLAGS: 00010086 (2.6.15-22-386) [ 30.262820] EIP is at do_setitimer+0x98/0x6c0 [ 30.277328] eax: 00000000 ebx: deca0000 ecx: de8724c0 edx: 00000000 [ 30.299826] esi: de8724c0 edi: deca1fa8 ebp: df22f030 esp: deca1f2c [ 30.322318] ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 [ 30.335957] Process udevd (pid: 2741, threadinfo=deca0000 task=df22f030) [ 30.357457] Stack: 00000000 00000000 df1feb7c deca0000 c17b5850 b7e14080 c0150e05 df607560 [ 30.385794] deca7cd4 b7e14080 c17b5850 df1feb7c 00000000 00000000 df607560 de8724c0 [ 30.414057] deca7cd4 c0116a36 df607560 000000b4 00000003 08089d78 deca0000 c0125b62 [ 30.442320] Call Trace: [ 30.451297] [<c0150e05>] __handle_mm_fault+0xa5/0x210 [ 30.468488] [<c0116a36>] do_page_fault+0x216/0x61a [ 30.484823] [<c0125b62>] sys_alarm+0x32/0x70 [ 30.499452] [<c0103089>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb [ 30.514367] Code: 04 00 00 83 c0 40 50 e8 57 4e 00 00 59 5e 85 c0 78 c1 8b 8d 6c 04 00 00 89 4c 24 3c 8b 7c 24 64 8b 07 8b 57 04 3d 54 c3 20 00 0f <87> 1d 05 00 00 89 c6 31 ff 89 54 24 0c 89 d0 c1 f8 1f 89 44 24 [ 30.580230] <6>note: udevd[2741] exited with preempt_count 1 [ 32.620544] parport_pc: VIA 686A/8231 detected [ 32.635539] parport_pc: probing current configuration [ 32.652379] parport_pc: Current parallel port base: 0x378 [ 32.670341] parport_pc: VIA parallel port disabled in BIOS [ 32.688650] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. [ 32.703766] pnp: Device 00:10 disabled. [ 32.759075] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 [ 32.794165] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4 [ 32.940348] irda_init() [ 32.948760] NET: Registered protocol family 23 [ 33.192448] Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones [ 33.219506] agpgart: Detected VIA Apollo ProMedia/PLE133Ta chipset [line noise?] 23:51:25 CDT 2006 starting...
and then it looks like it resets several times, and finally appears to give up.
Let me know what if any additional info would be helpful.
-Alex Mauer "hawke"