On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
yes, unfortunately the board did not react in any way on the setting of sw3 jp8. it still came up with the linuxbios serial output. Stupid me assumed that the flash is scanned for an elf image, without reading the code diligently enough. Instead the code expected 2 linuxbioses in blocks 0 and 1, and the kernels starting from block 2, so linuxbios stopped whith an illegal elf header message. Seems I unlearned being careful a bit when i did all the flash hot swapping for /dev/bios.
what I did is to leave the SRM image in place, and only have one linuxbios to start.
There is still a way to recover even when you toast flash. I just don't know what it is :-(
There is a keyboard sequence that lets you talk to the maintenance processor. As it comes up try hitting ESC-ESC-rmc
I found on the Linuxbios homepage that ASUS uses the wrong flash parts. Iirc I flashed some bioses on asus boards using /dev/bios. Is the 440GX problem still alife, too? If it helps, I could try to get that hardware supported by /dev/bios since I want to develop the driver towards being a universal flasher tool for Linux.
l440gx is fixed, I can now write L440gx flash! I just wrote random junk into it yesterday.
The VIA chipsets are just plain hard. My code kind of works with one SDRAM in on the 8601 and 69x chipset. I didn't have the time to figure them out so I moved on. I am hoping VIA will get me some working code at some point.
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