It would be sure that many guys in this list have succeeded to build a rom image for VIA EPIA series with both freebios1 and 2. How you did it? And what is the difference with my case?
--- Okajima.
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Hello Linux BIOS developers.
I have tried to run linuxbios on VIA EPIA-C800 M/B, but failed. I tried both freebios1 and 2 src trees, but both failed, Sigh. Anyone can help me ?
Source trees: freebios-20041019-1200.tar.bz2 freebios2-20050305-0000.tar.bz2 from http://snapshots.linuxbios.org/ in both case, I uses filo/usb from Etherboot 5.4.0 as a payload.
FreeBIOS1: I tried with both util/config/epia.conf and epia800.conf, but both failed. epia.conf does not run. it shows weird and buggy chars. must be runaway. epia800.conf runs. but does not load a payload. just ended up with "bad gzip magic numbers" after had execed pc80/ide_* stuff. I looked up why epia.conf does not run and found the difference between both configurations. it would need these lines to be added, but why? option BOOT_IDE=1 option IDE_BOOT_DRIVE=0 option ONE_TRACK=63
FreeBIOS2: Just did not work. it seems not to work totally, because even VGA sync signal does not comes. BTW, how to enable VGA debugging output?
--- Okajima, Jun. Tokyo, Japan.
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Jun OKAJIMA