On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:45:01AM -0500, Corey Osgood wrote: > > 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.
Yep, let's do it. Does the board have a socketed BIOS so you can hot-swap it to have a backup chip stored away safely? > > I identified the following chips on the mainboard: > > > > Super I/O: NSC PC87317 > > Northbridge: Intel FW82443BX > > Southbridge: Intel FW82371EB Looks good, we can support that easily. Please send the output of 'lspci -tvnn' and 'superiotool -dV' from your board (run it as root). Also, please run the 'getpir' tool and send us the irq_tables.c file which is generated by the tool. We can make a patch with that information then, if you're willing to test it on your hardware. > > 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. Do you absolutely need the SCSI? See also Peter's post, I'm not sure if/how it may work, but you should be able to boot off of IDE just fine with LinuxBIOS if that helps. > > 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 Yeah, that would be very interesting to know. > 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. Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios