[LinuxBIOS] Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9

[Jack Wasey]

Hi,

I have a spare motherboard to experiment with linuxbios. I see that each
individual component of my mobo seems to be on your supported list.

http://www.giga-byte.co.uk/Support/Motherboard/BIOS_Model.aspx?ProductID=186...

Should this be straightforward?

Thanks,
Jack

[Peter Stuge]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:57:43PM +0100, Jack Wasey wrote:
> I have a spare motherboard to experiment with linuxbios. I see that
> each individual component of my mobo seems to be on your supported
> list.
>
> Should this be straightforward?

Mh, I wouldn't go that far. But it may be easy enough. :) Depends on
your skill level really.

But is the nForce4 really supported? Is it just another name for
MCP55?

//Peter

[Jack Wasey]

Peter Stuge a écrit :
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:57:43PM +0100, Jack Wasey wrote:
> > I have a spare motherboard to experiment with linuxbios. I see that
> > each individual component of my mobo seems to be on your supported
> > list.
> >
> > Should this be straightforward?
>
> Mh, I wouldn't go that far. But it may be easy enough. :) Depends on
> your skill level really.
>
> But is the nForce4 really supported? Is it just another name for
> MCP55?

Maybe... but it says "OK" on the status page.

I did read that the DualBIOS won't get me out of trouble if I flash with 
linuxbios. This would seem like a useful thing to be able to use, if 
possible.

[Peter Stuge]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 09:24:42PM +0100, Jack Wasey wrote:
> > But is the nForce4 really supported? Is it just another name for
> > MCP55?
>
> Maybe... but it says "OK" on the status page.

Cool. Can you send lspci from a running system?
> I did read that the DualBIOS won't get me out of trouble if I flash
> with linuxbios. This would seem like a useful thing to be able to
> use, if possible.

Not possible. DualBIOS is a software thingy that Gigabyte seem to
market rather loudly.

There are pads for a second flash chip on the rev 1 board though, so
maybe you can reverse engineer the schematics for the board enough to
make a dual flash chip mod similar to the on for M57SLI. Then you
have a physical switch, anything else is just not very useful.

The other option is to swap pushpinflash (chips with glued on plastic
knob) back and forth - works fine too. :)

//Peter