[LinuxBIOS] Two problems

[ROHIT VENKATACHALAM]

Hi,

I am having two problems with LinuxBIOS.

1. I have an ATI 3D Rage Pro onboard video rom. I have got the vgabios rom for it. I cat it with linuxbios.rom and produce the final linuxbios image. During execution, after entering the x86 emulator, there is a message saying -

halt_sys:/home/rohit/LinuxBIOSv2/src/devices/emulator/x86emu/ops.c   line 2136

but the execution of LinuxBIOS continues and nothing is seen on the monitor. Whats the problem?

2. I am using FILO in Etherboot to boot linux already stored in a SATA disk. But I am getting the following message -

No Drive detected on IDE Channel 2

What could be the problem?

Please reply ASAP.

Regards,

Rohit.

[Stefan Reinauer]

* ROHIT VENKATACHALAM  [060912 16:14]:
> I have an ATI
>
> 3D Rage Pro onboard video rom. I have got the vgabios rom for it. I cat
> it with linuxbios.rom and produce the final linuxbios image. During
> execution, after entering the x86 emulator, there is a message saying
>
> halt_sys:/home/rohit/LinuxBIOSv2/src/devices/emulator/x86emu/ops.c
>  line 2136

This message just means the rom has been executed and the emulator 
execution ended normally.
> but the execution of LinuxBIOS continues and nothing is
> seen on the monitor. Whats the problem?

- what board are you using?

- Is there any other output? Can you send the complete log, please?

- Can you please enable debug output for the emulator?
> I am using FILO in
>
> Etherboot to boot linux already stored in a SATA disk. But I am getting
> the following message -
>
> No Drive detected on IDE Channel 2

- SATA drives are recognized first in the chain. Try hda instead of hde.

- Are you using an nvidia chipset? SATA does not work on those.

Stefan

[Ward Vandewege]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 01:32:20PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > I am using FILO in
> >
> > Etherboot to boot linux already stored in a SATA disk. But I am getting
> > the following message -
> >
> > No Drive detected on IDE Channel 2
> SATA drives are recognized first in the chain. Try hda instead of hde.

For what it's worth; I had the exact same problem yesterday, and it turned
out that the sata drives were plugged in to ports 3 and 4 instead of 1 and 2;
FILO (0.5) did not seem to like that very much, it simply didn't see the
drives.

Thanks,
Ward.