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
The 8601A is broken and we don't know why. It won't setup the RAM correctly anymore.
Sorry.. We really need to put this on the wiki. Use a serial console and enable the RAM test. you will see the failures.
If you feel up to the task of debugging it we will try to help though.