Hdama + etherboot problems

2003-10-08 Thread Craig C Forney
I am attempting to get through the logistics of getting Linuxbios working on an Arima HDAMA board. I have run into a few problems, some of which I have been able to solve, and some of which have me stumped. I'm compiling everything on a stock SuSE 8.2 Professional release with the stock

Re: FILO 0.3

2003-10-08 Thread SONE Takeshi
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 01:48:00PM -0600, Nathanael Noblet wrote: I was wondering (in fact started modifying 0.2) to have a config file like grub does, so that it by default checks for that file and loads the default kernel there...? I haven't gotten that far along, but is this

Re: Hdama + etherboot problems

2003-10-08 Thread ron minnich
the first and most useful thing to do is set MAXIMUM_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL and DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL to 10 in the target config.lb. Then send the output again. Also, since you modified raminit.c, I think you should try an unmodified version first. ron

Re: Hdama + etherboot problems

2003-10-08 Thread ron minnich
oops, forgot to say this: - don't worry about the IRQ table - be sure to have your kernel boot SMP or with I/O APIC support for uniprocessors ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: V2 Epia

2003-10-08 Thread ron minnich
well, going in and commenting out lots of stuff is generally the worst possible way to proceed; you should read our copious support documentation. Oh, wait, there is no documentation. Never mind ;-) Please look at: freebios2/targets/arima/hdama/Config.kernelimage.lb This is a fallback-only

Re: V2 Epia

2003-10-08 Thread Nathanael Noblet
On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 10:32 AM, ron minnich wrote: well, going in and commenting out lots of stuff is generally the worst possible way to proceed; you should read our copious support documentation. yeah I know... but its sometimes fun.;) Oh, wait, there is no documentation. Never

Re: The Great Cheap EPIA contest.

2003-10-08 Thread David Hendricks
Case: http://www.axiontech.com/prdt.php?item=34633 $72 EPIA 8000A: http://www.axiontech.com/prdt.php?item=34667 $91 Factory installation: $25 Total: $188 per node, plus SH. Plus we have to flash the BIOSes ourselves which would be a hassle since we can't just boot off a Clustermatic cdrom. On the

Re: V2 Epia report

2003-10-08 Thread ron minnich
On 8 Oct 2003, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: Thanks to ron I made an romimage that is the right size, without um commenting out code here and there ;). LinuxBIOS was built fine, comes up sort of. Here's the logfile. I used FILO as my payload and well it can't find the device hda1... I've tried

LNXI hdama merge status...

2003-10-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
I have just gone through and done the bulk of the merge work, between my internal stable tree and the main LinuxBIOS tree. I have a bunch of details to check to make certain things are working. And to double check I have not done something stupid, but so far things look promising. Among other

Re: romcc error in smbus code

2003-10-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hm. ok. Does this code suite you as a testsuite, or can I do anything to provide such? If you can find the minimal sequence of code that causes this error I would appreciate it. That is how must of my test cases have been built of for romcc. I find a

Re: V2 Epia report

2003-10-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 8 Oct 2003, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: Thanks to ron I made an romimage that is the right size, without um commenting out code here and there ;). LinuxBIOS was built fine, comes up sort of. Here's the logfile. I used FILO as my payload and well it