Help! with Linuxbios + EPIA 5000 + Etherboot

[Hubert Denkmair]

Hi,

I finally received a working BIOS Saviour and tried linuxbios the first 
time last night.
I tried to exactly follow the EPIA-Howto but failed because I can't 
compile etherboot as described there:

First of all there's no line "CFLAGS+= -DPCIBIOS" to comment out in the 
etherboot-5.0.11 "Config" file - I assume it might be a typo in the 
howto and commented out the line "CFLAGS+= -DPCBIOS", but it won't work.

Anyways, I'm not able to compile the etherboot-5.0.[10,11] sources at 
all. I'm using a fresh upgraded debian "testing" with gcc-3.3.1

Simply doing a

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tar xvjf etherboot-5.0.11.tar.bz2
cd etherboot-5.0.11/src
make bin32/via-rhine.elf
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throws tons of warnings and fails to link with messages like

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bin32/via-rhine.o(.text+0x2e8): In function `rhine_probe1':
: undefined reference to `currticks'
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As I'm not familiar with C/GCC I have no idea where this may come from 
(wrong compiler version, wrong libs...?) I tried the etherboot-5.2.1 
source package.
Opposing to etherboot-5.0 there are no linuxbios options so I suppose 
they are not needed any more. The etherboot-5.2 package compiles fine 
(I'm doing a "make bin/via-rhine.elf").

 From there on I'm following the EPIA-HOWTO again and the linuxbios 
build runs smoothly, flashing the romimage also was no problem.
When booting, the linuxbios initialization seems to be ok, but after 
loading etherboot nothing seems to happen any more.
The last lines on the serial console are:

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Copying IRQ routing tables to 0xf0000...done.
Verifing priq routing tables copy at 0xf0000...succeed
Wrote linuxbios table at: 00000500 - 00000698  checksum 345e

Welcome to elfboot, the open sourced starter.
January 2002, Eric Biederman.
Version 1.2

     37:init_bytes() - zkernel_start:0xfff00000  zkernel_mask:0x0000ffff
Found ELF candiate at offset 0
Loading Etherboot version: 5.2.1
Dropping non PT_LOAD segment
New segment addr 0x20000 size 0xf160 offset 0xb0 filesize 0x5bdc
(cleaned up) New segment addr 0x20000 size 0xf160 offset 0xb0 filesize 
0x5bdc
Loading Segment: addr: 0x000000000ff7faa8 memsz: 0x000000000000f160 
filesz: 0x0000000000005bdc
Clearing Segment: addr: 0x000000000ff85684 memsz: 0x0000000000009584
Jumping to boot code at 0x20000
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Now, who can help be getting linuxbios/etherboot to work at all, or - 
better: boot from local IDE?

Do I need special config options for etherboot-5.2?
I searched the mailinglist but did not find any indication...

What's wrong with my etherboot-5.0? Is my debian broken?


Thanks for your help,

Hubert