[LinuxBIOS] EPIA non-M?

Tue May 9 07:34:13 CEST 2006

Richard Smith wrote:

> What happens wne you boot with the current version?
> Don't try any  vga just do serial to start with.

Well, if I boot LB alone, I get the following (at debug level 9):

[line noise?]

LinuxBIOS-1.1.8.0Normal Mon May  8 23:51:16 CDT 2006 starting...
87 is the comm register
SMBus controller enabled
vt8601 init starting
00000000 is the north
                     1106 0601
0120d4 is the computed timing
                             NOP
PRECHARGE
DUMMY READS
CBR
MRS
NORMAL
set ref. rate
enable multi-page open
Slot 00 is SDRAM 08000000 bytes x2
0100 is the chip size
000e is the MA type
Slot 01 is SDRAM 08000000 bytes x2
0100 is the chip size
000e is the MA type
Slot 02 is empty
Slot 03 is empty
vt8601 done
Copying LinuxBIOS to ram.
Jumping to LinuxBIOS.

....But if I boot from the normal BIOS, and then do a soft reset, it
actually works...almost.  A transcript of that (not attaching as it's
about 16k) is available at
http://web.hawkesnest.net/users/hawke/minicom.cap.txt

interesting portion: it loads Linux (Ubuntu), and gets to:

 * Loading hardware drivers...
[   30.094223] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address
89000005
[   30.118509]  printing eip:
[   30.127570] c0120468
[   30.134920] *pde = 00000000
[   30.144278] Oops: 0002 [#1]
[   30.153623] PREEMPT
[   30.161026] Modules linked in: evdev ext3 jbd dm_mod raid1 md_mod
ide_generic uhci_hcd usbcore ide_cd cdrom ide_disk via82cxxx generic
processor fbcon tileblit font bitblit softcursor capability commoncap
[   30.222441] CPU:    0
[   30.222446] EIP:    0060:[<c0120468>]    Not tainted VLI
[   30.222454] EFLAGS: 00010086   (2.6.15-22-386)
[   30.262820] EIP is at do_setitimer+0x98/0x6c0
[   30.277328] eax: 00000000   ebx: deca0000   ecx: de8724c0   edx: 00000000
[   30.299826] esi: de8724c0   edi: deca1fa8   ebp: df22f030   esp: deca1f2c
[   30.322318] ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
[   30.335957] Process udevd (pid: 2741, threadinfo=deca0000 task=df22f030)
[   30.357457] Stack: 00000000 00000000 df1feb7c deca0000 c17b5850
b7e14080 c0150e05 df607560
[   30.385794]        deca7cd4 b7e14080 c17b5850 df1feb7c 00000000
00000000 df607560 de8724c0
[   30.414057]        deca7cd4 c0116a36 df607560 000000b4 00000003
08089d78 deca0000 c0125b62
[   30.442320] Call Trace:
[   30.451297]  [<c0150e05>] __handle_mm_fault+0xa5/0x210
[   30.468488]  [<c0116a36>] do_page_fault+0x216/0x61a
[   30.484823]  [<c0125b62>] sys_alarm+0x32/0x70
[   30.499452]  [<c0103089>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
[   30.514367] Code: 04 00 00 83 c0 40 50 e8 57 4e 00 00 59 5e 85 c0 78
c1 8b 8d 6c 04 00 00 89 4c 24 3c 8b 7c 24 64 8b 07 8b 57 04 3d 54 c3 20
00 0f <87> 1d 05 00 00 89 c6 31 ff 89 54 24 0c 89 d0 c1 f8 1f 89 44 24
[   30.580230]  <6>note: udevd[2741] exited with preempt_count 1
[   32.620544] parport_pc: VIA 686A/8231 detected
[   32.635539] parport_pc: probing current configuration
[   32.652379] parport_pc: Current parallel port base: 0x378
[   32.670341] parport_pc: VIA parallel port disabled in BIOS
[   32.688650] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
[   32.703766] pnp: Device 00:10 disabled.
[   32.759075] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[   32.794165] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[   32.940348] irda_init()
[   32.948760] NET: Registered protocol family 23
[   33.192448] Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
[   33.219506] agpgart: Detected VIA Apollo ProMedia/PLE133Ta chipset
[line noise?] 23:51:25 CDT 2006 starting...

and then it looks like it resets several times, and finally appears to
give up.

Let me know what if any additional info would be helpful.

-Alex Mauer "hawke"
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