Hi list!
I've been trying to get LinuxBIOS to boot on my EPIA-V motherboard (VIA 8601A NB, VT8231 SB), and at first I followed the bundled HOWTO for the EPIA-M, before I discovered that EPIA-V was an entirely different creatures (it uses SDRAM, whereas I believe that the EPIA-M uses DDRAM), and the EPIA-M BIOS didn't boot, of course.
However, I've tried a number of different variations of the via/epia configuration now, and it doesn't seem to want to boot whatever I do. The new flash chip I used is a 512 KiB chip, as opposed to the original 256 KiB chip (which isn't a problem, though, because if I burn the original BIOS to it with a 256 KiB block from /dev/zero prepended to it, it boots just fine), so I tried the 512kbflash config file as well, but to no avail.
I'm using FILO as the payload.
I'm beginning to run out of options, and I don't know how to diagnose LinuxBIOS. The monitor doesn't turn on, so I'm guessing it might be something to do with the VGA BIOS. In the EPIA-M HOWTO it said to prepend the LinuxBIOS image with the original 64 KiB VGA BIOS image -- is that the same for the EPIA-V (and in that case, how would I do to generate a LinuxBIOS image that is suitable for prepending with the VGA BIOS)?
Thank you for your time!
Fredrik Tolf