Hello folks,

We have developed – basically a clone of the DB800 Amd Geode LX800 reference system.

We have an LX800, CS5536, SST04 LPC Flash (512KB) and a compact flash card – 1GB.

The system is booting Ubuntu 6.10 using a commercial BIOS.

I have downloaded the corebios and wish to get it running on our board. I have been able to download it, configured with FILO and its almost working.

What I want it to do is boot into the GRUB sector of the compact flash card and then allow grub to let me select what linux kernel/etc to boot.

When corebios loads FILO, filo says “mounting FAT” and it cannot find our grub sectors/etc on the compact flash card. Shouldn’t this be EXT2 that it mounts.

I have adjusted the configs for FILO to attempt to remove FAT, but it still keeps coming up. Seems like I a missing something pretty simple.

Can anyone point me to a reference on how to configure the latest corebios/FILO package to boot into an IDE compact flash (the compact flash card is right on the IDE bus of the CS5536).

Also – doesn’t have to be FILO. I saw etherboot can boot to IDE as well. I just want a BIOS so I can alter the memory timings/etc and jump to my compact flash card for booting. So whatever is easiest.

Thank you

Steve Spano, President

Finger Lakes Engineering