[coreboot] Need help with VGA on epia-m

bari bari at onelabs.com
Wed May 28 09:14:12 CEST 2008


Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> I found the issue with epia-m and vga.  I am now succesfully booting
> my epia-m with filo and fc9 - everything seems to work the same as
> with the factory bios (except coreboot is faster).
>
> The problem is related to the wiki site at:
>
> http://www.coreboot.org/VIA_Epia-M%2C_MII_Build_Tutorial
>
> It has an incorrect command for extracting the vga bios.  When I use a
> correct command - for example:
>
> dd if=/dev/mem of=video.bios.bin.4 bs=65536 count=1 skip=12
>
> Then the extracted vga bios boots fine and enables vga console.
>
>   
Is vga console working for you with just the use of the properly 
extracted vga BIOS or do you have to use BOCHS as well?

-Bari




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