Michiel van Dijk wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if LinuxBIOS would work on my Compaq ProLiant 1850R server. > The current Compaq BIOS lacks a lot of options. >
The system itself is not supported yet, but all the components are. It wouldn't be very hard to port it. > I identified the following chips on the mainboard: > > Super I/O: NSC PC87317 > Northbridge: Intel FW82443BX > Southbridge: Intel FW82371EB > > SCSI: Symbios LSI 53C876 (on-board) > You'd have to extract the original option rom from the bios for this, then prepend it to linuxbios. Explore around the wiki a bit, there's a build guide for another board with a SCSI option rom, or else it's the same process as for a VGA rom. > Video: ATI Rage IIc (on-board) > There's a driver in LB for the rage, I don't know if it'll work with this particular one or not, but it can't hurt to try. This would mean no need to use the vendor BIOS. There's a tyan board that uses this, but I don't know which one(s) off the top of my head. > Best regards, > Michiel. -Corey -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios