Help needed (LinuxBIOS & FILO on EPIA5000)

[SONE Takeshi]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 02:33:39PM +0200, Sven Luebke wrote:
> mkelfImage --kernel=/usr/src/linux-2.4.21/arch/i386/boot/bzImage \
>                      --output=/vmlinuz.elf \
>                      --command-line="console=ttyS0,115200n8 root=/dev/hda5"

That looks ok.

> ------------------ begin -----------
> 0
> 
> LinuxBIOS-1.0.0 Fri Sep 19 13:58:31 CEST 2003 starting...
> ------------------- end --------------
> 
> That's the last message...

Looks like it successfully initialized the serial port but
failed to initialize DRAM.
What kind of RAM do you use? (size, single or double side, speed, etc..)

If you have a POST card you can see how far it goes.
Otherwise, you have to insert some CONSOLE_DEBUG_TX_STRING macros
in (perhaps) freebios/src/northbridge/via/vt8601/raminit.inc
to see it.

> Any idea? Is it better to deactivate VGA support first and get the rest 
> working first?

That's a good idea.

--
Takeshi