via epia, pchips 787cl+

[Alexander Amelkin]

Hello!

The linuxbios status comments for via epia say "etherboot" only.
  Does that mean that epia won't be able to boot from a local ide hard
  drive? Are there any plans to implement the support for
  lilo/whatever booting from the hard drive on epia?

Another question is about the pcchips 787cl+ 3.0 board. It's sis630e
  + it8705. I didn't find sis630e in the list of supported devices,
  but I found some discussion on how to enable or disable something on
  that chipset. That's confusing. Is sis630e supported, or is it not?

With best regards,
Alexander  mailto:[e-mail]

Alexander Amelkin  writes:
> Hello!
>
> The linuxbios status comments for via epia say "etherboot" only.
>   Does that mean that epia won't be able to boot from a local ide hard
>   drive?

Nope, etherboot supports booting from the local ide hard drive,
at least as well as the native LinuxBIOS IDE code does.
> Are there any plans to implement the support for
>   lilo/whatever booting from the hard drive on epia?

Things are gradually improving.  Those of us who think a development
machines has a 1000 motherboards don't always see the point in booting
off a local hard drive :)

Eric

Re[2]: via epia, pchips 787cl+

[Alexander Amelkin]

Hello Eric,

Wednesday, February 19, 2003, 4:32:39 AM, you wrote:

EWB> Alexander Amelkin  writes:
> > Hello!
> >
> > The linuxbios status comments for via epia say "etherboot" only.
> >   Does that mean that epia won't be able to boot from a local ide hard
> >   drive?

EWB> Nope, etherboot supports booting from the local ide hard drive,
EWB> at least as well as the native LinuxBIOS IDE code does.

Cool! Can you tell me how critical that "problem with irq routing
table" is on VIA EPIA?
> > Are there any plans to implement the support for
> >   lilo/whatever booting from the hard drive on epia?

EWB> Things are gradually improving.  Those of us who think a development
EWB> machines has a 1000 motherboards don't always see the point in booting
EWB> off a local hard drive :)

I didn't understand what you meant, but the fact that etherboot
supports booting from a local hard disk is very good.

With best regards,
Alexander  mailto:[e-mail]
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Re[2]: via epia, pchips 787cl+

Alexander Amelkin  writes:
> Hello Eric,
>
> Wednesday, February 19, 2003, 4:32:39 AM, you wrote:
>
> EWB> Alexander Amelkin  writes:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > The linuxbios status comments for via epia say "etherboot" only.
> > >   Does that mean that epia won't be able to boot from a local ide hard
> > >   drive?
>
> EWB> Nope, etherboot supports booting from the local ide hard drive,
> EWB> at least as well as the native LinuxBIOS IDE code does.
>
> Cool! Can you tell me how critical that "problem with irq routing
> table" is on VIA EPIA?

I wouldn't know.
> > > Are there any plans to implement the support for
> > >   lilo/whatever booting from the hard drive on epia?
>
> EWB> Things are gradually improving.  Those of us who think a development
> EWB> machines has a 1000 motherboards don't always see the point in booting
> EWB> off a local hard drive :)
>
> I didn't understand what you meant

That last couple of machines I played with LinuxBIOS on were:
MCR A cluster with roughly 1200 nodes.
Pink (for Ron Minnich) with roughly a 1000 nodes.
> but the fact that etherboot
> supports booting from a local hard disk is very good.

While there is support for booting off of the hard drive
we don't have all of the usability issues ironed out yet.
In particular you can boot one thing off of the hard drive
and lilo/whatever don't work yet.

Eric

[ollie lho]

On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 09:05, Alexander Amelkin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> The linuxbios status comments for via epia say "etherboot" only.
>   Does that mean that epia won't be able to boot from a local ide hard
>   drive? Are there any plans to implement the support for
>   lilo/whatever booting from the hard drive on epia?
>
> Another question is about the pcchips 787cl+ 3.0 board. It's sis630e
> it8705. I didn't find sis630e in the list of supported devices,
>
> but I found some discussion on how to enable or disable something on
>   that chipset. That's confusing. Is sis630e supported, or is it not?

SiS 630e is exactly the same as SiS 630 from SW point of view.

Re[2]: via epia, pchips 787cl+

[Alexander Amelkin]

Hello ollie,

Wednesday, February 19, 2003, 6:32:27 AM, you wrote:
> > Another question is about the pcchips 787cl+ 3.0 board. It's sis630e
> > it8705. I didn't find sis630e in the list of supported devices,
> >
> > but I found some discussion on how to enable or disable something on
> >   that chipset. That's confusing. Is sis630e supported, or is it not?

ol> SiS 630e is exactly the same as SiS 630 from SW point of view.

Cool, but SiS630 is not on the list. There is SiS635 and pcchips
m758lmr+, both without any status report. I assume that pcchips m758lmr+
is somehow similar to the pcchips m758LT v7.0, which is listed on the
pcchips site, but anyway the status for m758lmr+ is empty. :(

Does that mean that there is no SiS630 version of the linuxbios?

With best regards,
Alexander  mailto:[e-mail]

Re[2]: via epia, pchips 787cl+

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Alexander Amelkin wrote:
> Cool, but SiS630 is not on the list. There is SiS635 and pcchips
> m758lmr+, both without any status report. I assume that pcchips m758lmr+
> is somehow similar to the pcchips m758LT v7.0, which is listed on the
> pcchips site, but anyway the status for m758lmr+ is empty. :(
>
> Does that mean that there is no SiS630 version of the linuxbios?

there was, but I have had no confirmed "good builds" lately.

ron

Re[2]: via epia, pchips 787cl+

[ollie lho]

On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 01:56, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Alexander Amelkin wrote:
> > Cool, but SiS630 is not on the list. There is SiS635 and pcchips
> > m758lmr+, both without any status report. I assume that pcchips m758lmr+
> > is somehow similar to the pcchips m758LT v7.0, which is listed on the
> > pcchips site, but anyway the status for m758lmr+ is empty. :(
> >
> > Does that mean that there is no SiS630 version of the linuxbios?
>
> there was, but I have had no confirmed "good builds" lately.

I am sorry for that. We don't have any 730 or 730 boards around so
I can not do regression test on that.

Re[2]: via epia, pchips 787cl+

[Steve M. Gehlbach]

> Cool, but SiS630 is not on the list. There is SiS635 and pcchips
> m758lmr+, both without any status report. I assume that pcchips m758lmr+
> is somehow similar to the pcchips m758LT v7.0, which is listed on the
> pcchips site, but anyway the status for m758lmr+ is empty. :(
>
> Does that mean that there is no SiS630 version of the linuxbios?
>
> With best regards,
> Alexander  mailto:[e-mail]

mainboard/pcchips/m787cl+

The 787cl+ uses the sis630 and status is stable.  The config
(util/config/pcchips787.config) is setup to boot from IDE using linuxbios
ide routines.

-Steve