[LinuxBIOS] No VGA with EPIA-MII 6000

scott scott at waye.co.uk
Mon May 8 23:38:12 CEST 2006


I am getting to grips with flashing my bios.  I have followed the
documentation in the EPIA_M HOWTO and I have flashed a couple bios'es
and my epia still works, so far so good.  I do not want a serial console
(I have the serial port connected to the car, so I dont want stuff going
down there), but I would like a VGA console.  I copied the
Config.vga.filo as it comes from svn to Config.lb (just changing the
path to filo.elf), but I get this after running buildtarget, then make:

"XIP_ROM_BASE is not a multiple of XIP_ROM_SIZE"
make[1]: *** [auto.inc] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/scott/ibus/bios/LinuxBIOSv2/targets/via/epia-m/epia-m/normal'
make: *** [normal/linuxbios.rom] Error 1


So I went back to my Config.lb which did work (but with no VGA) and I
changed:

< option  CONFIG_CONSOLE_SERIAL8250=1
---
> option  CONFIG_CONSOLE_SERIAL8250=0
> option CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA=1


in an attempt to turn off serial console and turn on the VGA console,
this builds fine, and boots, but with no VGA output.  I think I am
missing a trick here?

Anyone have a Config file for the EPIA M II 6000 with VGA enabled?

My Config file is below:

# Sample config file for EPIA-M
# This will make a target directory of ./epia-m

target epia-m

mainboard via/epia-m

option  MAXIMUM_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL=8
option  DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL=8
option  CONFIG_CONSOLE_SERIAL8250=0
option CONFIG_CONSOLE_VGA=1


option ROM_SIZE=256*1024
option HAVE_OPTION_TABLE=1
option CONFIG_ROM_STREAM=1
option HAVE_FALLBACK_BOOT=1

###
### Compute the location and size of where this firmware image
### (linuxBIOS plus bootloader) will live in the boot rom chip.
###
option FALLBACK_SIZE=0x30000

## LinuxBIOS C code runs at this location in RAM
option _RAMBASE=0x00004000

#
###
### Compute the start location and size size of
### The linuxBIOS bootloader.
###

#
# EPIA-M
#
#romimage "normal"
#    option USE_FALLBACK_IMAGE=0
#    option ROM_IMAGE_SIZE=0xc000
#    option ROM_SECTION_OFFSET=0x10000
#    option ROM_SECTION_SIZE=0x18000
#    option XIP_ROM_BASE=0xfffd0000
#    option LINUXBIOS_EXTRA_VERSION=".0Normal"
#    payload /usr/share/etherboot/5.1.9pre2-lnxi-lb/tg3--ide_disk.zelf
#    payload ../../../../tg3--ide_disk.zelf
#    payload ../../../../../lnxieepro100.ebi
#    payload /filo.elf
#end

romimage "fallback"
    option USE_FALLBACK_IMAGE=1
    option ROM_IMAGE_SIZE=0x10000
    option ROM_SECTION_OFFSET=0x10000
    option ROM_SECTION_SIZE=0x30000
#    option XIP_ROM_BASE=0xfffe0000
    option LINUXBIOS_EXTRA_VERSION=".0Fallback"
#    payload /usr/share/etherboot/5.1.9pre2-lnxi-lb/tg3--ide_disk.zelf
#    payload ../../../../tg3--ide_disk.zelf
#    payload ../../../../../lnxieepro100.ebi
    payload /home/scott/ibus/bios/filo-0.5/filo.elf
end

buildrom ./linuxbios.rom ROM_SIZE  "fallback"






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