Hi,
I've built my linuxbios.rom for Iwill's dk8s2. the only change i made was to the ROM_SIZE (i needed it to be 512k, not 1mb).
i've plugged in the prom and a serial console set to 115200 bps. i don't actually see anything.
what sort of output should i be seeing? i've tried turning up the debug level, but still see no output.
does anyone have any experience with this board?
thanks,
peter
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Peter Buckingham wrote:
I've built my linuxbios.rom for Iwill's dk8s2. the only change i made was to the ROM_SIZE (i needed it to be 512k, not 1mb).
I wish david hendriks were here ...
I wonder if your romimage is any good. You can send to me for a quick look.
We had some interest from iwill and even sent them a system of theirs running linuxbios etc. but I have not heard from them lately. I don't know what they plan to do.
i've plugged in the prom and a serial console set to 115200 bps. i don't actually see anything.
you should test your serial console setup under fuctory bios before you try it under linuxbios. Use minicom at each end, set the baud rates, and so on.
does anyone have any experience with this board?
we had some and I will look and see if we still do.
ron
Hi Ron,
ron minnich wrote:
I wonder if your romimage is any good. You can send to me for a quick look.
i'll send it to you off line.
We had some interest from iwill and even sent them a system of theirs running linuxbios etc. but I have not heard from them lately. I don't know what they plan to do.
at least i know that it's meant to work ;-)
you should test your serial console setup under fuctory bios before you try it under linuxbios. Use minicom at each end, set the baud rates, and so on.
i've been using a null modem cable that i use for kernel debugging, should i be using a straight through cable?
thanks,
peter
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Peter Buckingham wrote:
i've been using a null modem cable that i use for kernel debugging, should i be using a straight through cable?
what you use doesn't matter as long as you test it before you try using it with linuxbios.
thanks
ron
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 13:32, Peter Buckingham wrote:
Hi Ron,
ron minnich wrote:
I wonder if your romimage is any good. You can send to me for a quick look.
i'll send it to you off line.
We had some interest from iwill and even sent them a system of theirs running linuxbios etc. but I have not heard from them lately. I don't know what they plan to do.
at least i know that it's meant to work ;-)
you should test your serial console setup under fuctory bios before you try it under linuxbios. Use minicom at each end, set the baud rates, and so on.
i've been using a null modem cable that i use for kernel debugging, should i be using a straight through cable?
The DK8S2 should work without problem. We had that long time ago. What did you do to shrink the romimage size ? How did you flash the flash ?
Ollie
Li-Ta Lo wrote:
The DK8S2 should work without problem. We had that long time ago. What did you do to shrink the romimage size ? How did you flash the flash ?
i just changed ROM_SIZE to be 512K rather than 1024K. i flashed it with a universal device programmer from BP microsystems (this has worked fine for other bios releases). i have been using a serial cable that works fine for other kernel debugging.
peter
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Peter Buckingham wrote:
i just changed ROM_SIZE to be 512K rather than 1024K. i flashed it with a universal device programmer from BP microsystems (this has worked fine for other bios releases). i have been using a serial cable that works fine for other kernel debugging.
my only other worry would be that Iwill has change the mobo in some way and we don't know it.
For first time users, I really do recommend you go with a Tyan board since they have vendor support for linuxbios and can answer questions such as this. Sorry I didn't say this earlier.
ron
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