ADLO + EPIA-M + No hard disk, just etherboot/tftp?

[David Ashley]

I'm working with the VIA EPIA-M motherboard.

I'm trying to bring up ADLO with linuxbios, and I've gotten this far using
tftp:
Linuxbios -> etherboot-5.0.10 -> ADLO

Previously I have had
Linuxbios -> etherboot-5.0.10 -> linux, all ok except no VGA

So I'm working on getting VGA up since although evidently people have done it
they're not sharing.

This is a diskless workstation so the idea is its root filesystem exists
only over the network, and linux will always be booted with etherboot/bootp.
However ADLO locks you into a hard drive boot.

SO:

Is it possible to merge the ADLO payload and my linux payload (made with
mkelfImage-2.5) so that everything will work? Maybe I'd modify ADLO to
just initialize itself then chain to the linux payload directly rather than
try booting a hard drive.

Any help appreciated. When/if successful I *will* share the procedure of
getting VGA working with epia-m. Please cc me on replies since I'm not
subscribed.

Thanks--
Dave

[Brian G. Rhodes]

are you trying to use adlo specifically for VGA?  ifso then you could just
use linuxbios's vgabios support.

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On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, David Ashley wrote:
> I'm working with the VIA EPIA-M motherboard.
>
> I'm trying to bring up ADLO with linuxbios, and I've gotten this far using
> tftp:
> Linuxbios -> etherboot-5.0.10 -> ADLO
>
> Previously I have had
> Linuxbios -> etherboot-5.0.10 -> linux, all ok except no VGA
>
> So I'm working on getting VGA up since although evidently people have done it
> they're not sharing.
>
> This is a diskless workstation so the idea is its root filesystem exists
> only over the network, and linux will always be booted with etherboot/bootp.
> However ADLO locks you into a hard drive boot.
>
> SO:
>
> Is it possible to merge the ADLO payload and my linux payload (made with
> mkelfImage-2.5) so that everything will work? Maybe I'd modify ADLO to
> just initialize itself then chain to the linux payload directly rather than
> try booting a hard drive.
>
> Any help appreciated. When/if successful I *will* share the procedure of
> getting VGA working with epia-m. Please cc me on replies since I'm not
> subscribed.
>
> Thanks--
> Dave
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