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[Edwin Rhodes]

i think that it is probably a good idea that we do not run away from supporting other operating systems not just support linux, sure enough linux is the best but to make open bios an alternative to ami bios and award we have to support at least freedos! :)

edwin

ps. i tried that open bios dos loader program, it returned the error message "cant find intel pci bridge" or somthing like that, weird cos its an intel clone motherboard with pci bridge on it!
its gon an AMD cpu in it though. does open bios support the AMD chip?

edwin

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[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Edwin Rhodes wrote:
> ps. i tried that open bios dos loader program, it returned the error
> message "cant find intel pci bridge" or somthing like that, weird cos
> its an intel clone motherboard with pci bridge on it!

boot linux, cat /proc/pci and send the output to this list.

ron

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[Niklas Ekström]

I assume you have read the included textfiles (loadbios.txt and
loadbios.asm). If you have and still don't know how to do, you can try
this:

Remove the comment ( ; ) from the beginning of line 49.
Go to line 91 and change the 06000h to 07000h.
Use Nasm to assemble the file with:
  nasm loadbios.asm -f bin -o loadbios.com
Copy the compiled openbios rom file to the current directory, as BIOS.IMG

This should work, however I wouldn't expect much to happend. For me the
leds on the keyboard flashed and that was about it (although it was long
time since I tried it).

/ Niklas


On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Edwin Rhodes wrote:
> ps. i tried that open bios dos loader program, it returned the error message "cant find intel pci bridge" or somthing like that, weird cos its an intel clone motherboard with pci bridge on it!
> its gon an AMD cpu in it though. does open bios support the AMD chip?
>
> edwin

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[James]

> This should work, however I wouldn't expect much to happend. For me the
> leds on the keyboard flashed and that was about it (although it was long
> time since I tried it).

Try copying a character to the video memory if you want output for
debugging.  Color text video memory starts at b800:0.


BTW, I am going to get a group of students here at UC Berkeley to help me
with some of this project as soon as I get some hardware and get
organized.  Are there others in Silicon Valley on this list who would like
to be in contact with us?  Are there any companys that would like to
loan/donate hardware? <grin>

	- James

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