Re: filo on Tyan s2880

[YhLu]

SONE,

What is the FIFO URL and the status?

Is it some kind payload for LinuxBIOS?

Regards

YH.

-----邮件原件-----
发件人: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:[e-mail]] 
发送时间: 2003年10月30日 4:33
收件人: SONE Takeshi
抄送: [e-mail]
主题: Re: filo on Tyan s2880

* SONE Takeshi  [031030 13:25]:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 12:40:02PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > SONE Takeshi  [031030 11:40]:
> > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 11:34:29AM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > > > I am using an etherboot payload that reads an elf image from
> > > > the first sectors on the disk. This works fine, I put filo there
> > > > so I can load a kernel from any filesystem. Unfortunately filo seems
> > > > to find no IDE controller, it says IDE channel 0 not found.
> > > > Etherboot and Linux can see the ide controller though (it's on bus

1)
> > > Maybe the problem is with my PCI code.
> > > Please send me the output log with DEBUG_ALL.
> >
> > You only seem to scan bus 0:
>
> Ok..
> My PCI scan routine starts from bus 0, and recurses when PCI bridges are
> found.  I think I took this algorithm from pciutils.
>
> However your board has only host bridges on bus 0, so FILO doesn't know
> if bus 1 exists.
>
> I checked Etherboot and it just scans bus 0 to 255 unconditionally.
> I don't know which is better.
> Anyway attached patch changes the PCI scan to Etherboot way.

Thanks. with this patch it also works using PCI.

Stefan

filo on Tyan s2880

[SONE Takeshi]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 09:49:49AM -0800, YhLu wrote:
> What is the FIFO URL and the status?
> Is it some kind payload for LinuxBIOS?

FILO loads vmlinuz and ELF kernel from filesystem (like ext2)
on the local IDE hard disk, CD-ROM, CompactFlash, or ROM.
It's working well on my EPIA, and also reported to work with
K8 based boards including Tyan's.

See this for details: http://te.to/~ts1/filo/

My plan is to add support for configuration file, so the default kernel
location and parameters will no longer be hard coded in the Flash, and
Stephan told me maybe he can support this config file in the future
releases of SuSE installation CDs.

filo on Tyan s2880

[Richard Smith]

SONE Takeshi wrote:
> See this for details: http://te.to/~ts1/filo/
>
> My plan is to add support for configuration file, so the default kernel
> location and parameters will no longer be hard coded in the Flash, and
> Stephan told me maybe he can support this config file in the future
> releases of SuSE installation CDs.

I bet if you asked nicely on the Debian boot list you could get support 
under Debian as well.

filo on Tyan s2880

[SONE Takeshi]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 02:43:47PM -0600, Richard Smith wrote:
> > My plan is to add support for configuration file, so the default kernel
> > location and parameters will no longer be hard coded in the Flash, and
> > Stephan told me maybe he can support this config file in the future
> > releases of SuSE installation CDs.
>
> I bet if you asked nicely on the Debian boot list you could get support 
> under Debian as well.

Putting /filo.conf in the CD or floppy is a trivial task,
but the hard part is to make the installer create the filo.conf
for booting from installed hard disk.
Maybe KNOPPIX would be easier. It doesn't install. :)