Porting Linuxbios to Via P4m266A

Hi all

I ve been lurking on this list for some time.
Has linuxbios been ported to the Via p4m266A mobo?
(vt8633, vt8235, IT8705)
If not can i do it?. 
Basically i would like to boot from a usb thumb drive 
(transcend 512Mb). The problem is that the bios 
recognizes the usb only as a floppy and if it is a 
dos fat16 partition. This makes grub and lilo unusable 
(unless i waste 16 mb on a dos partition). I am able 
to use syslinux though.

here is what lspci says
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3148
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3104 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3177
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Ethernet Controller (rev 74)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc.: Unknown device 8d04

attached  output of lspci -v

Btw I am good with a solder iron and do some work with 
microntrollers pcs and assorted hardware.

rgds
jtd

[Ronald G. Minnich]

I would love it if you could do that port. You need to get data from via 
on how the chips work. That is your first step.

ron