[LinuxBIOS] Slow SATA on Tyan s2891 with LinuxBIOS

[Greg Johnson]

> I'm afraid I don't have answers for you, but I do have a couple of
> questions :) Do you boot off SATA? If so, I assume you use Etherboot?
> Which version?  Which version of LB are you running?

Ward,

I am booting with Etherboot v5.4.1.  LinuxBIOS is from November
sometime.  I think this version is from Yh Lu.  He helped with getting
it to work.  I just tried to build it from the current (r2169) svn, and
it doesn't boot:


LinuxBIOS-1.1.8_s2891_Normal Thu Feb  2 22:15:06 UTC 2006 starting...
(0,1) link=01
(1,0) link=00
02 nodes initialized.
 core0:  --- {  APICID = 12 NODEID = 01 COREID = 00} ---
SBLink=00
NC node|link=00
NC node|link=02
        busn=40
ht reset -

Greg