On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Dan Shearer wrote:
> On 17 December 2000 Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > First, get the standard FLASH disk image from intel. You should have this
> > anyway. Now experiment with using this to load flash. You ought to know
> > how to do this anyway.
>
> 3. Boot from the Intel Resource CD ROM which came with the server, is
> solely in order to run DOS! Still, I did it anyway. Use 'Quit to DOS' as
> soon as the CD has booted. Enter "a:" and then "go", and select the bit
> you want to upgrade, in this case the BIOS. This is fou. Someone on the
> linux-kernel list says that one manufacturer is doing a similar thing but
> they use FreeDOS.
Don't bother, the floppy is bootable. Take the resource cd, put it in a
microwave, and run the microwave for 5-10 seconds. You'll get far more use
out of the resource cd this way than you'll ever get out of trying to use
it for anything.
ok, just kidding, use the CD for a coaster.
Once the floppy is made, you can boot it.
> > But what if I want to back out of Linuxbios and restore the Intel
> stuff? I presume I use the serial console to pass a commandline parameter
> to Linuxbios to tell it to boot from a DOS floppy.
Set the "recovery boot" jumper on the motherboard, put the floppy in, and
it will load and reflash the original bios.
> Sounds good. I still don't quite know how the Makefile ends up generating
> all the *PI? files, nor how to get the DOS program to put them into
> FLASH, but I'm sure I'll work it out.
make phlash.
Also, I STRONGLY recommend you copy the RON_L440GX_SCSI directory
somewhere OUTSIDE the linuxbios tree. Then fix the TOP variable in the
makefile and voila, you can cvs update without fouling up your build
directory.
Note that the almost-ready config tool will eliminate some of this.
Right now I'm having SCSI troubles. I can't state this will work for
scsi. Sorry. I really need someone with scsi expertise to tell me what's
going wrong.
Are you using a VA node? I keep wondering if it's the VA SCA hardware.
> I notice the doc directory in the cvs tree is empty. How about a more
> complete version of this message finds its way there? I'll keep note of
> what I have to do from now on.
I'll try to do that, many thanks.
I'm sorry this is so rough and ready. We've been pretty focused on getting
things to go, and we need to start looking at howto's and such. I
appreciate your patience.
ron
