On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Dan Shearer wrote:
> I take it then that the BIOS update floppy is bootable. The SUP (System
> Update Package) that has all the updates for all the components certainly
> isn't.
test it. Mine boots. Who knows what Intel has done lately. They got nasty
on the MS440GX mainboard and made it so we can't use their flash program
to load our BIOS. Jerks.
> So you are saying something like this:
>
> 1. md l440gx, copy RON_L44GX_SCSI to this directory
Yes.
> 2. unpack linux-2.4.0-test6 in a directory level with l440gx called
> linux-2.4.0-test11.l440gx.scsi
You can put it anywhere, just fix the LINUX= in the Makefile
> 3. make
> 4. make phlash
You can just do (4) if you want :-)
> 5. cvs -pserver <etc> update, as required.
yup.
>> Ron says: (SCSI busted on va2200)
> What sort of troubles? In any case I presume that it should be easy to
> tell whether Linuxbios is working or not - it either boots the OS or it
> doesn't.
It boots fine. It gets into fsck and at some point gets an oops. It's
frustrating. I would like to test it on a non-va node to see if it's the
VA SCA adapter. Looks like you go first. I'm hoping you're going to work
fine.
> By the end of this exercise I might have the basis of an L440GX
> howto. Unless SCSI totally fails, of course.
cross fingers.
ron
