Any EPIA etherboot success stories?

David Hendricks sc at flagen.com
Thu Jul 10 17:17:00 CEST 2003


I see a lot of people here have gotten LinuxBIOS working with the Via EPIA
using an IDE device, but has anyone managed to get it working using
etherboot to boot a kernel over a network? I'm a hopeless newbie and have
been struggling with this for some time. I have links to logs, my payload,
and my config below (Trying to keep the list archives tidy).

I had gotten etherboot working with the PCM-5823s earlier and compared the
minicom log with that of my Epia. The only real obvious discrepency I see
is the entry point. The Geode entered at 0x00094000 (606,208), while the
Epia is trying to enter at 0x00020000 (131,072).

I'm using CVS versions of Etherboot and LinuxBios. However, I haven't been
able to update in the past one or two weeks due to Sourceforge's problems
so I might have missed an important patch.

Links
EPIA minicom log (High verbosity):
http://www.flagen.com/~sc/linux/funstuff/epia-dave
My Rhine payload:
http://www.flagen.com/~sc/linux/funstuff/via-rhine-ebcvs.elf
My config file: http://www.flagen.com/~sc/linux/funstuff/epia.config
Geode (Elfboot part only):
http://www.flagen.com/~sc/linux/funstuff/geode-elfboot-dave

TIA
--David



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