[LinuxBIOS] setting up linuxbios?

[Craig Bane]

Hi just want to clear a few things up before I try to install linuxbios onto
my ecs a754 motherboard.
I've done a lspci heres the output:

virogenesis@localhost:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev
a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio
Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev a2)
00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev
a2)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev
a2)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a2)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a2)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM
Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscellaneous Control
01:08.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7892A U160/m (rev 02)
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600 GT]
(rev a2)

After linuxbios is compiled and my bios is flashed what will I need to do in
order to boot a single linux distro.

Thank you in advance.

[Uwe Hermann]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:49:35PM +0000, Craig Bane wrote:
> Hi just want to clear a few things up before I try to install linuxbios onto
> my ecs a754 motherboard.

Please note that the board is not yet supported. You'll have to do some
coding to get it going.

Some of your hardware seems to be supported, though (CK804, K8), so it's
probably not too hard...

If you want to tackle this, make sure you have a backup option, in case
something goes wrong (e.g. an extra BIOS chip with a backup of your
original BIOS).

Is the BIOS chip soldered on or socketed? What Super I/O do you have?
> After linuxbios is compiled and my bios is flashed what will I need to do in
> order to boot a single linux distro.

There are various ways to boot Linux. Either via FILO (a simple
GRUB-like bootloader), or by booting another Linux kernel and then using
kexec to boot the "real" one. Maybe there are more possibilities.

Using FILO, you'll just tell it in the 'Config' file where your kernel
image and initrd are (and some other options) and it will boot that...

Uwe.