You can not boot from CK804 sata directly with FILO in Etherboot.
The code only support Sata that can work on compatible IDE mode.
You need to use other media ( network, CF IDE flash) to load kernel with ck804 sata and kexec support, and use kexec to load final kernel in your sata disk.
YH
-----Original Message----- From: linuxbios-bounces@linuxbios.org [mailto:linuxbios-bounces@linuxbios.org] On Behalf Of Myles Watson Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 3:57 PM To: linuxbios@linuxbios.org Subject: [LinuxBIOS] Etherboot (FILO) with SATA on tyan s2895
I am booting linuxbios with etherboot and filo as the payload. I tried to follow the s2881 tutorial on the wiki.
Etherboot only finds my cd-rom. When I try to use hde:/ it tells me that "Drive 4 does not exist". All drives up to j except hda (my cd-rom) give the same error message. Sometimes if I try hdg it hangs.
I saw README.filo_in_etherboot where it says it only works on SATA port 1 or 2. I've tried on SATA 0 port 0 and 1, SATA 1 port 2 and 3.
I also seem to need to boot the factory BIOS in between each attempt, or I won't get very far.
Is there something simple I've missed?
Thanks, Myles
Output:
Etherboot 5.4.2 Drivers: TG3 FILO Images: NBI ELF Protocols: DHCP TFTP Relocating text ... Scanning PCI: found 30 devices Probing pci disk... [FILO]FILO version 0.4.1 boot: hde3:/boot/vmlinuz... initrd=/boot/initrd... IDE time out No drive detected on IDE channel 2 boot: hdc:/ No drive detected on IDE channel 1