On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 09:40, Andrew Richardson wrote: > Dear All, > I am new to this list and have been emailing Ron a few > times about the SiS530. > Ron sugested that I use FILO for my project and > I have had a trawl around to find filo, and have > downloaded a BZ from a fairly unreputable looking web > site. Does anyone have the "official" website > address at all? > > Also Ron said to configure LinuxBIOS for the 530, but > I thought that it was not supported by the LinuxBIOS > project. > > I understand (basically) the idea of having payload > code (which is filo from your advice), but I think I > may need some more explicit instructions: do I assume > correctly that I need to flash my current 530 board > bios with LinuxBIOS with a payload of filo and have > filo point to boot off HDA1? > > Then this leads me onto another question: can I pull > a bios chip from another PC and use that to flash LB > onto to use with the 530, or are some regions of the > BIOS chip un-writable and/or mobo specific? If the > latter then would it not be safer to get a small DoC > and flash that, as I only have one 530 Mobo. >
Can you still get SiS 530 board this day ? I thought it is obsoleted long time ago. Ollie _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
