(sorry about that. my san.rr.com isp has been deactivated in favor of the Linux based speakeasy.net isp ;-)
(BTW. I can send a beginning hexdump/edit of the bios chip for verification that it is being burned properly. )
I've tried smartcore-p5/ & l440bx/ and on each boot, the 440bx box still acts like it can't find any bios (ie black screen, some minimal drive activity, nothing on ttyS1, etc)
From what has been briefed to me, the DOC MIL chip will mimic a standard
flash DIP and doesn't need docipl(?) -- docipl is needed in order to use nftl to install something like a root partition on the chip?
I've also tried flashing the builds to a standard DIP 2Mb/256kb flash (even though I know it doesn't fit :-).
One thing I will note tho, I do have to use openbios/devbios to burn the standard AMTEL 32pin DIP Flash as for some reason linux mtd will fail to recognize these chips (even after I unshadow flash to the chipset by hacking devbios module to *not* unshadow after being unloaded.
I do know that openbios/devbios is flashing properly as I mistakenly flashed my original manuf bios flash chip and then had to re-flash it and then flash another chip for backup incase it failed. Amazingly both chips worked and both had good copies of the manuf. bios on them. ;-)
On 15 Aug 2003, Roger wrote:
(BTW. I can send a beginning hexdump/edit of the bios chip for verification that it is being burned properly. )
sure, send it along. ron
From what has been briefed to me, the DOC MIL chip will mimic a standard
flash DIP and doesn't need docipl(?) -- docipl is needed in order to use nftl to install something like a root partition on the chip?
There is no way you can get 440bx memory up in 512 bytes. No DOC MIL on 440bx.
I've also tried flashing the builds to a standard DIP 2Mb/256kb flash (even though I know it doesn't fit :-).
So it won't work anyway.
ron
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 12:26, ron minnich wrote:
On 15 Aug 2003, Roger wrote:
(BTW. I can send a beginning hexdump/edit of the bios chip for verification that it is being burned properly. )
sure, send it along. ron
From what has been briefed to me, the DOC MIL chip will mimic a standard
flash DIP and doesn't need docipl(?) -- docipl is needed in order to use nftl to install something like a root partition on the chip?
There is no way you can get 440bx memory up in 512 bytes. No DOC MIL on 440bx.
I've also tried flashing the builds to a standard DIP 2Mb/256kb flash (even though I know it doesn't fit :-).
So it won't work anyway.
ron
ok. point well made. now i'll go into a slumber with a couple of bottles for the next few days :-/
when i become conscience again, i'll try to see how many friendly emails my intel archs can turn out and send to intel ;-)
within this year. i'll be looking at investing $$$ into h/w that *does* make use of linuxbios since i'm tired of the old amibios/award bioses.
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Roger -
ron minnich