[LinuxBIOS] EPIA M-II (CF Boot)

[Jun OKAJIMA]

How about checking these stuff?
  -- Dev node is created
  -- Root dev is properly assigned, path and (major, minor).
But, what you have to do now is gettting sleep.

                    --- Okajima, Jun. Tokyo, Japan.



>I can't get past initrd yet! VFS: Unable to mount root hde1 or unknown-block 
>(0,0).
>It seems that even though I'm starting up cardmgr in the initrd, which 
>sucessfully finds hde and hde1, upon finishing the initrd (closing the shell 
>or end of linuxrc), the kernel doesn't find hde1. Could this be to do with 
>my 2.6 kernel not having devfs. I have fired up udevstart though, although 
>I'm not 100% sure what I'm doing, the device nodes are being created.
>
>Or could it be that I need to upgrade to pcmciautils - the new pcmcia-stuff, 
>as the kernel is warning me about use of depreciated ioctls with cardmgr.
>
>ho hum. I haven't bothered playing on it tonight, as I've been staying up 
>'til ~4:30am on this lately and that's bad for my work!
>
>cheers!
>Carl
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Jun OKAJIMA" <okajima at digitalinfra.co.jp>
>To: "Carl Farrington" <linuxbios at compsup.demon.co.uk>
>Cc: <linuxbios at openbios.org>
>Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 1:33 AM
>Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] EPIA M-II (CF Boot)
>
>
>>
>>
>> Gooood! but you can run X? This is the key. And I can not yet.
>>
>>                   --- Okajima, Jun. Tokyo, Japan.
>>
>>
>>>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
>>>
>>>
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