Re: [LinuxBIOS] Failure with Tyan K8WE S2895

[Lu, Yinghai]

1. Mem size?
2. Linux Kernel version when you are flashing linuxbios.rom?
3. you need to use tiny kernel to boot from SATA.

YH

[LinuxBIOS] Failure with Tyan K8WE S2895

[Daniel Drake]

On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 14:44 -0800, Lu, Yinghai wrote:
> Mem size?

2GB
> Linux Kernel version when you are flashing linuxbios.rom?

2.6.18.2
> you need to use tiny kernel to boot from SATA.

I'm using FILO as a payload, not a kernel directly -- does the size of
the kernel still matter? Would a payload/kernel issue really cause this
kind of problem? I'd expect more than 0.5 seconds of life from the
system anyway, I'd be happy if it gave me a prompt or similar.

Thanks!
Daniel

[LinuxBIOS] Failure with Tyan K8WE S2895

[Myles Watson]

> I'm using FILO as a payload, not a kernel directly -- does the size of
> the kernel still matter? Would a payload/kernel issue really cause this
> kind of problem? I'd expect more than 0.5 seconds of life from the
> system anyway, I'd be happy if it gave me a prompt or similar.

FILO doesn't have the drivers necessary to control the SATA drives on the
NVIDIA CK804 chipset.  That's why you need a tiny kernel.

I ran into the same problem and ended up adding an IDE drive to the system
so that I could boot, at least until I could get a tiny kernel into the ROM.

My symptoms were different, though.  My machine came up to a prompt and then
couldn't find the drive.  The fact that your machine is beeping seems weird
to me.  I haven't seen LinuxBIOS beeping for failures.  Have you looked up
the code to see if your factory BIOS can explain the beep codes?

Myles
> Thanks!
> Daniel