VIA fastboot MII debug message

Ronald G. Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Tue Sep 7 08:48:00 CEST 2004


On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 Trellix78 at aol.com wrote:

> I just found something interesting.  I was playing around
> with VIA's fastboot debug USB-boot BIOS image for the Epia MII and came across a linuxbios message at the very end after
> the bootloader complained about not finding a suitable USB boot device.  There is no such message in the IDE or CD-ROM
> images.  The fastboot MII images are very fast but they don't work for the non-MII epia and I find it funny that VIA didn't include a way to use hooks like they did for the pre-MII fastboot.  I say this because I've been struggling with CLE266 video and linuxbios while VIA releases binary-only images with a linuxbios message that don't work on the epia M.

any via people on this list care to comment?

ron



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