[LinuxBIOS] EPIA M-II (CF Boot)

[Carl Farrington]

I would like to add my name to the list of people who have suceeded with the 
EPIA-MII LinuxBIOS.

The VGA BIOS offset given by Nick Barker was no good for my board (Model: 
EPIA-Mii12000 LVDS), I had to use skip=786432 as suggested by Jun.

I am having problems with the kernel recognising the CF device as hde1 
though. I am able to manually mount hde1 from a diagnostics shell within the 
initrd after running cardmgr, so it is available, but once I exit the shell 
the kernel is saying it can't find hde1.

I'm not sure if Nick used devfs with his setup, but that's not available for 
my 2.6.14 kernel. I have used mknod to create the device, and also tried 
using udevstart but still have the same problem. I wonder if it's something 
to do with me having all the pcmcia stuff compiled directly into the kernel 
instead of as loadable modules? Unfortunately I'm quite rusty with Linux!

Anyway, I suppose this is a bit off topic. The LinuxBIOS seems to work 
great, thank you, and big thanks to Nick for all your work on the EPIA M2.

Oh, by the way, I used Award's AWDFLASH to flash linuxbios.bin. Using the 
undocumented /F option. Nick's HOWTO talked about a flash_and_burn utility 
which wasn't in the tree, and the flashrom tool just wouldn't compile for me 
for some reason. AWDFLASH worked, except for some strange quirks. I can't be 
certain if it was due to bad floppies on my part, but for some reason I felt 
I was having better success overwriting a good bios, rather than re-trying 
on a failed flash. The machine would go loopy sometimes. It all works now 
anyway.

cheers,
Carl