Yah the BIOS has the newest flash I could find. Kinda old (2002) I also ruled out the CF card by trying a HD, same problem. I also tried a smaller CF card.
Regardless -- my custom build was SUCCESSFUL! I have a fully starting 0.6 (and it saw my kd and acted appropriately) Now, I don't know what the factor is here but I did take the default astlinux.config and gut most of the packages out of it (mostly to speed up my build time, but I also disable a lot of the things like the mDNS daemon anyhow, so why bother having it). I assume the images at http://www.djhsolutions.com/astlinux/ are built from astlinux.config copied to .config, or is anything else changed? I do observe that my image, and the 0.5 image, are both the smallest .run files of all I have tried (23M, 29MB vs 31.4MB, 34MB...) Could this be a factor? hmm I can also fill in the boot lines after when I normally pause... Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed Looking for AstLinux image... AstLinux image found! It doesn't even get to printing Looking for AstLinux image. Does anyone familiar with the code better know what happens at that point in the process? Well, as I have time I'm going to add a few packages back in and hopefully nothing breaks. Thanks, - Nick On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Philip Prindeville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is probably obvious, but make sure your BIOS is current on the VIA > board, also. > > I've had issues with an M10000-II with bad BIOS. > > -Philip > > Nicholas Sabinske wrote: >> Right, I am using that target in all cases. (see subject) >> I'm getting ready to build the 0.6 branch from sourceforge to see if >> it works any better. I wonder if the official 0.6 images will go up >> before this finishes on my old server? :) >> >> Thanks, >> - Nick >> >> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Darrick Hartman >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> The 'via' target is really the Via C3-2 kernel. So it only supports >>> Nehemiah and newer cores. For older boards that would require the >>> original C3 kernel target, you should use the generic i586 target from >>> trunk-1907 or the 0.6 images when those are available. >>> >>> Darrick >>> >>> Nicholas Sabinske wrote: >>> >>>> Darrick, >>>> >>>> Here's the output >>>> >>>> - Nick >>>> >>>> pbx ~ # lspci >>>> 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia] (rev >>>> 05) >>>> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia AGP] >>>> 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8231 [PCI-to-ISA Bridge] (rev >>>> 10) >>>> 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. >>>> VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) >>>> 00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 >>>> Controller (rev 24) >>>> 00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 >>>> Controller (rev 24) >>>> 00:11.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ACPI (rev 10) >>>> 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 >>>> AC97 Audio Controller (rev 40) >>>> 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev >>>> 51) >>>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1 (rev >>>> 6a) >>>> >>>> pbx ~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo >>>> processor : 0 >>>> vendor_id : CentaurHauls >>>> cpu family : 6 >>>> model : 7 >>>> model name : VIA Samuel 2 >>>> stepping : 3 >>>> cpu MHz : 533.377 >>>> cache size : 64 KB >>>> fdiv_bug : no >>>> hlt_bug : no >>>> f00f_bug : no >>>> coma_bug : no >>>> fpu : yes >>>> fpu_exception : yes >>>> cpuid level : 1 >>>> wp : yes >>>> flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow >>>> bogomips : 1067.50 >>>> clflush size : 32 >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Darrick Hartman >>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Nick, >>>>> >>>>> Can you do an lspci and cat /proc/cpuinfo and post that info here? >>>>> >>>>> That will show me exactly which hardware is included and we can probably >>>>> tell you why one is working and not the other. >>>>> >>>>> Darrick >>>>> >>>>> Nicholas Sabinske wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Thanks -- that makes more sense now. >>>>>> >>>>>> Ok so here's my points of data >>>>>> >>>>>> * A-Data 2GB 120x CF card, working in a [brand unknown] UDMA CF -> IDE >>>>>> adapter. I had the same adapter and card in the laptop, and the combo >>>>>> worked with all builds >>>>>> >>>>>> * Same combo doesn't work with the Via on the trunk-1907 image but it >>>>>> DOES work with the 0.5 image... so it can work... something's >>>>>> different there that matters. >>>>>> >>>>>> * Ive got the partition the runnix image provides, then a second hda2 >>>>>> that's 256mb of ext2. You can see the kernel identify the 2GB drive >>>>>> and hda1 and hda2 in both the runnix and AstLinux boots. >>>>>> >>>>>> * It does get past runnix in all cases (of course, since that's been >>>>>> common) >>>>>> >>>>>> Since it looks like the 0.5 build was newer, maybe Ill be fine when >>>>>> the 0.6 goes up? Maybe something was fixed or something is being built >>>>>> slightly different? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> - Nick >>>>>> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
