On our system linuxBIOS gets up to the point that the kernel uncompresses and then tries to detect the root file system on hard disk. We pass it kernel option root=/dev/hda1 and supplemental parameters for disk geometry, ide bus, i/o and delayed access to the ide controllers for the case they can't follow the post-expansion activity. The master ide (hda) gets identified as non-ide device and interestingly the slave ide (hdb) gets identified as ide-device but stays without response. At this point we think the pci initialisation before kernel expansion was insufficient - we also get strange values for the ultra dma, time and slave time registers on the pci bus (0x1001 for all of them). How far is the linux prompt ?
Eli
-----Original Message-----
From: Ronald G Minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 9:56 PM
To: Elias Rajczyk
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Question about LinuxBios
tOn Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Elias Rajczyk wrote:
> Does linuxbios nowadays support access to ide controllers ?
For what use? It looks like some support will go in, but only for generic
IDE I hope.
ron
