RE: [LinuxBIOS] Asking help for serial output

[Lu, Yinghai]

About the serial console, did you verify the connection by enabling
serial console on /etc/inittab?

YH

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Samuel [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5:13 PM
To: Lu, Yinghai; Stefan Reinauer
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: RE: [LinuxBIOS] Asking help for serial output

Here is the info:

when running flash_rom -vw linuxbios.rom, I get
.....
Part is SST49LF004A/B
Programming Page: 0007 at address: 0x00070000
Verifying address: VERIFIED

Memory of the machine with linuxbios installed is of
size 1GB.

I tired compiling on two machines with two different
kernels. 
2.6.11.4-20a-default (SuSE 9.3 on a uniprocessor
desktop)  
2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp (Fedora Core 1 on IWILL DK8S.)
Both kernels are 32-bit.

The machine that I install linuxbios has a kernel of 
64 bit 2.6.5-7.97-smp #1 SMP (SuSE SLES9)

Xuehua

--- "Lu, Yinghai"  wrote:
> Flash_rom?
>
> Did you try 
> flash_rom -vw linuxbios.rom
>
> How many memory on MB? >4G or not?
> Linux Kernel version? 2.6, 64 bit?
>
> YH
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail]
> [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of
> Stefan Reinauer
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 2:38 PM
> To: Frank Samuel
> Cc: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Asking help for serial
> output
> Frank Samuel  [050921
>
> 23:24]:
> > I tried two motherboards, Iwill/DK8S2 and
>
> tyan/s2882.
> > Compiled succesfully and get a linuxbios.rom and
> > flashed them to chip using flash_rom. But I didn't
>
> see
> > any output via serial port.
>
> wrong baud rate? See the motherboard config file
>
> 1:1 cable instead of null modem (cross) cable?
>
> Stefan

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[LinuxBIOS] Asking help for serial output

[Frank Samuel]

Thanks.

--- "Lu, Yinghai"  wrote:
> About the serial console, did you verify the
> connection by enabling
> serial console on /etc/inittab?
>
> YH

I just added 
s0:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L -f /etc/issueserial
9600 ttyS0 vt100
s1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L -f /etc/issueserial
38400 ttyS1 vt100
into /etc/initab on the machine where I run minicom.
And run init -q. After power cycle the machine with
linuxbios.rom flashed, but I still cannot get output
from serial cable. BTW, I connected the cable to
another machine and can recieve serial output of 
booting process.

BTW, I installed lxbios, and run it right after
linuxbios.rom is flashed. But it said that that
linuxbios is not installed. Does it mean that the
linuxbios.rom generated is still incorrect?
The way I flashed linuxbios and ran lxbios is below:

-bash-2.05b# ./flash_rom -vw
/home/opt/linuxbios/LinuxBIOSv2-2040/targets/Iwill/dk8s2/dk8s2/linuxbios.rom
The arguments are:
-vw
/home/opt/linuxbios/LinuxBIOSv2-2040/targets/Iwill/dk8s2/dk8s2/linuxbios.rom
Calibrating timer since microsleep sucks ... takes a
second
Setting up microsecond timing loop
454M loops per second
OK, calibrated, now do the deed
Enabling flash write on AMD8111...OK
Trying Am29F040B, 512 KB
probe_29f040b: id1 0x7f, id2 0x45
Trying At29C040A, 512 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xbf, id2 0x60
Trying Mx29f002, 256 KB
probe_29f002: id1 0xbf, id2 0x60
Trying SST29EE020A, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xbf, id2 0x60
Trying SST28SF040A, 512 KB
probe_28sf040: id1 0x7f, id2 0x45
Trying SST39SF020A, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xbf, id2 0x60
Trying SST39VF020, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xbf, id2 0x60
Trying SST49LF040, 512 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xbf, id2 0x60
Trying SST49LF080A, 1024 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xff, id2 0xff
Trying SST49LF002A/B, 256 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xbf, id2 0x60
Trying SST49LF003A/B, 384 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xbf, id2 0x60
Trying SST49LF004A/B, 512 KB
probe_jedec: id1 0xbf, id2 0x60
SST49LF004A/B found at physical address: 0xfff80000
Part is SST49LF004A/B
Programming Page: 0007 at address: 0x00070000
Verifying address: VERIFIED
-bash-2.05b# lxbios -a
lxbios: LinuxBIOS table not found.  LinuxBIOS does not
appear to
        be installed on this system.  Scanning for the
table produced the
        following results:

0 valid signatures were found with bad
header checksums.
            0 valid headers were found with bad table checksums.

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