epia problem/Epia status update

Luc Belliveau luc at bigdata.nb.ca
Fri Dec 3 11:03:01 CET 2004


Oh, ok.  I just tried an etherboot payload, and that loads.  So it must 
be my FILO config.  .. I don't even get the boot: prompt.. 

I'm going to try the etherboot ide_disk maybe and and see what that does.

Any ideas what's going on with FILO?

Luc Belliveau wrote:

>
> Thanks for the feedback, those lines helped.  Now I get as far as:
>
> Welcome to elfboot, the open sourced starter.
> January 2002, Eric Bierderman.
> Version 1.3
>
> And it sits there... should it be doing something else before it loads 
> up FILO, or does this mean LinuxBIOS has finished it's job and now I 
> need to play with the payload?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Luc
>
> mark.wilkinson at 2pmtech.com wrote:
>
>> Ron,
>>    Consider me Pre-Pinged !
>>
>> I've already e-mailed Luc and the list, I guess you haven't caught up 
>> with your
>> e-mail yet :-)
>>
>> There is definately a need to add the following 2 lines to
>> mainboard/via/epia/Options.lb
>>
>> use CONFIG_CONSOLE_SERIAL8250
>> default CONFIG_CONSOLE_SERIAL8250=1
>>
>> Current status of my epia code is as follows :-
>>     It's booted ! All the way though LB, loaded a kernel via filo 
>> from the hard
>> disk and let me login. There are issues with the speed, the boot 
>> sequence
>> seemed painfully slow. This could be for any number of mis-configured 
>> settings
>> at my end.
>>
>> I also seem to have some spurious output before getting to the 
>> following line
>> LinuxBIOS-1.1.7.0Normal (date) starting...
>>
>> which seems to be part of the northbridge debug lines.... I haven't 
>> tracked down
>> whats going on here yet.
>>
>> At present, I'm trying to clean up the southbridge code.
>>
>> Regards
>> Mark.
>>
>>
>> Quoting "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich at lanl.gov>:
>>
>>> On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Luc Belliveau wrote:
>>>
>>>> I compiled from freebios2 from cvs, when I boot all I get back from 
>>>> the serial
>>>> port is:
>>>>
>>>> LinuxBIOS-1.1.7.0Normal <date> starting..
>>>> vt8601 init starting
>>>> Slot 00 is SDRAM 04000000 bytes x2
>>>> Slot 01 is empty
>>>> Slot 02 is empty
>>>> Slot 03 is empty
>>>> vt8601 is done
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> that's it.  I tried changing the DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL but when 
>>>> I do that
>>>> the resulting rom stops at Slot 00 is SDRAM 04000000 bytes x2.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> well we need to ping mark wilkinson, as he just committed a bunch of 
>>> fixes
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Mark?
>>>
>>> ron
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>>
>>
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