OpenBIOS July 2005

openbios@openbios.org

9 participants
6 discussions

by Fco .J. Arias

Hello, I modified this thin client to run win98 or linux, it becomes with windows ce. But bios General software bios is very bad for PNP, and usb, cs5530 udma, sound,acpi, .., don't work. At the moment xpress vga, serial, parallel, rs232, lan and other components works ok. Can I flash bios of this thinclient (now a useful simple computer, very quiet) with OPENBIOS? Extract actual bios before? -- Fco .J. Arias <javi(a)productshome.com>

14 years, 5 months

newbie

by Douglas Frank

Greetings all, I've just subscribed. I've been googling around for quite a while now, looking for an interesting project that isn't already almost done, and that isn't essentially closed to significant contributions from people outside whatever organization sponsors the project. That leaves out a lot of otherwise interesting projects-- such as the kernel trace work at opersys.com, or Fedora, or the crash-dump project (lkcd) just for a few examples. I confess I'm not just interested in "open source" for any altruistic reason-- I'm really looking for a way to establish credentials in the OS "community" (a much-overused word). I bet such be will be increasingly important in future years. A little context: I'm using Fedora (FC3) here at work (nobody seems to mind that I can't read half of HP's internal web pages, which mostly only work right with IE; and I *certainly* don't mind! :-) I naturally poked around Redhat's site looking for Fedora work, but all they really offer is a bugzilla listing. 98% of reported FC bugs are either with badly outdated releases, or expansion hardware I don't have. However there *does* seem to be an issue with FC3 and the 2.6.11 kernel-- with several reports of solid system hangs/lockups, where the computer essentially freezes in place. Now on an Alpha, all you'd have to do is hit the halt button, type "cra" at the ">>>" prompt, and reboot; once in multiuser you'll have a crash dump waiting for your debugging pleasure. But I've never seen the PC that had a halt button that didn't instantly put you in POST, which kinda limits the chances of copying memory to the swap partition. So at least on the PC architecture, there doesn't seem to be a reliable way to do a postmortem on a wedged kernel. Obviously, the BIOS is a problem. Which leads me to you. What needs doing? thanks! -- Douglas Frank HP Co. ZKO 110 Spit Brook Rd. The older I get, 603-884-0501 Nashua, NH USA 03062 the better I was.

14 years, 5 months

Intel 9IGLM motherboard support?

by Csanyi Pal

Hello! I have the 9IGLM motherboard with chipset Intel 845 GL. Can I hope that that I can download and install some open BIOS firmware for my motherboard? Thanks! -- Regards, Paul Debian Junior Project, DebianEdu, Moodle -> :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) http://www.ektf.hu/~Csanyi.Pal (Up to now, it is in Hungarian only.)

14 years, 5 months

OpenBIOS, LinuxBIOS, FreeBIOS ???

by Per Dalgas Jakobsen (OpenBIOS)

Hi all, General question: I have been googling OpenBIOS, LinuxBIOS and FreeBIOS a bit, but I'm a little confused about the connection between them. Perhaps someone can clarify this for me? Specific questions: I have a Lippert Cool RoadRunner II (CRR2) board, consisting of a National Geode (GX1), a CX5530 and a 256KB Flash BIOS. It is set-up with a compact flash card (connected to the primary EIDE on the board). I would like it to boot up directly into Linux or RTEMS (*fast*). With the current BIOS, I have boot-time (reset to bootloader start) of approx 6 seconds. Any recommendations? Should I stick with the current BIOS? Should I use one or the other Linux-/Open-/Free-BIOS? Any experience with this chipset-combination? How much work would you think is needed to get it to work? Thanks ~Per

14 years, 6 months

interesting: IBM's "Open source Slimline Open Firmware"

by Brian Sammon

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-dw-slof.html

14 years, 6 months

LH5 / LZH modules in Asus - Award BIOS files

by Borg No. One

Hi. Can someone help here: http://www.wimsbios.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=32796#32796 -- Weitersagen: GMX DSL-Flatrates mit Tempo-Garantie! Ab 4,99 Euro/Monat: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl

14 years, 6 months