Hi there, I've a Gigabyte GA-7NNXP with nForce II Chipset, and a BIOS with a size of 512 KB. Will I be able to get a open source "bios" work on that mainboard ? thx for your helping!!
On Saturday 06 December 2003 3:58 pm, Stefan wrote:
Hi there, I've a Gigabyte GA-7NNXP with nForce II Chipset, and a BIOS with a size of 512 KB. Will I be able to get a open source "bios" work on that mainboard ?
Boot Linux on that board by whatever means you can and post the results of "lspci" and "lspci -v" so we can see what chipsets etc are really there.
Antony.
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Stefan wrote:
I've a Gigabyte GA-7NNXP with nForce II Chipset, and a BIOS with a size of 512 KB.
nvidia chipset, right? no chance. nvidia has no wish to help.
ron
I've a Gigabyte GA-7NNXP with nForce II Chipset, and a BIOS with a size of 512 KB.
nvidia chipset, right? no chance. nvidia has no wish to help.
That's a shame - I was thinking of getting a Gigabyte/nVidia board because Gigabyte now appear to have true dual BIOS chips on their boards. If it fails to boot from one chip it automatically switches to the other, you can reflash one chip from the other or from a floppy in the default BIOS setup, etc. it looks like it'd be a very handy board to use for testing - put LinuxBIOS in the main chip and have the default BIOS as backup. Then you can boot off the backup in case of a failed flash attempt and reflash LinuxBIOS into the main chip.
Looks like Gigabyte are introducing it on all their boards though, which is a good sign.
Cheers, Adam.
LinuxBIOS can boot off a fallback image on the ROM in case the primary image fails.
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 14:09:54 +1000 Adam Nielsen a.nielsen@optushome.com.au wrote:
I've a Gigabyte GA-7NNXP with nForce II Chipset, and a BIOS with a size of 512 KB.
nvidia chipset, right? no chance. nvidia has no wish to help.
That's a shame - I was thinking of getting a Gigabyte/nVidia board because Gigabyte now appear to have true dual BIOS chips on their boards. If it fails to boot from one chip it automatically switches to the other, you can reflash one chip from the other or from a floppy in the default BIOS setup, etc. it looks like it'd be a very handy board to use for testing - put LinuxBIOS in the main chip and have the default BIOS as backup. Then you can boot off the backup in case of a failed flash attempt and reflash LinuxBIOS into the main chip.
Looks like Gigabyte are introducing it on all their boards though, which is a good sign.
Cheers, Adam.
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