[LinuxBIOS] Help regarding compiling and building bios

Richard Smith smithbone at gmail.com
Wed Mar 23 15:58:12 CET 2005


On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 05:25:55 +0000 (GMT), Ramesh Chhaba
<ourlinuxid at yahoo.co.in> wrote:

> >I've attached a FAQ I did a long time ago. It has some stuff on
> >etherboot wich may be useful. Its almost 2 years old though so use it 
>   
> U might have forgot to attach that file   :(( , 

oops sorry.  Here it is. 

> I have made a BOOTROM for NIC card can it be attached as payload by
> converting it in to ELF image 
>  or I have to make any other special motherboard specific image. 

Did you re-compile or get one of the pre-built ones? I seem to
remember you have to recompile with some special options set.

> >There are probally lots of other options you may need to include. You
> >will have to look at the source code to figure out what they need to
> >be. 
>   
> Is there any guideline  from where to find thwe other suitable option. 

Nope the only real reference is the source code.

-- 
Richard A. Smith
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