Status of the EPIA port?

2004-07-08 Thread Adam Hunt
What is the current state of the EPIA port? I am interested in running LinuxBIOS on a EPIA PD 1 (as soon as I can find a supplier in the States). Can X be run via the on-board VGA (as apposed to the LVDS). --adam ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL P

RE: Filo Error Help

2004-07-08 Thread Hendricks David W.
Looks more like a Linux config problem. Double check your /etc/fstab and make sure the root partition entry is correct and that you have virtual terminal (VT) support enabled in your kernel. On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, David Aubin wrote: > Hi, > > With your elf I get the following: > boot: uda1:/ram

RE: Filo Error Help

2004-07-08 Thread David Aubin
Hi, With your elf I get the following: boot: uda1:/ram0_2.5_2.6.5_k8.2_mydisk7.elf LinuxLabs USB bootloader New USB device, setting address 2 0008:0006:0050 Manufacturor: Kingston Product: DataTraveler2.0 Serial: 07B1F140E000617B Found USB block device 2 Mounted reiserfs errnum=15 bo

RE: Filo Error Help

2004-07-08 Thread David Aubin
Hi, I currently have the kernel with 8000. Here's the output of the kernel booting: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8000K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Dave On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 17:43, ron minnich wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, David Aubin wrote: > > > If

RE: Filo Error Help

2004-07-08 Thread David Aubin
Your self consists of a kernel and initrd correct?  Made with Eric's mkelfImage2-5? On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 17:49, YhLu wrote: I could send you my elf, but it is about 6Mb. YH -Original Message- From: ron minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 2:42 PM To: Dav

Re: Filo Error Help

2004-07-08 Thread David Aubin
This exact same elf boots up fine with etherboot. In fact I have etherboot-filo configured to boot off of the net and it grabs this elf and boots the system well. But when I use USB and this same elf, it gets a crc error during the initrd portion. It loads the kernel fine though. Dave On Thu, 20

RE: Filo Error Help

2004-07-08 Thread YhLu
I wonder if it is after gzip or before gzip. -Original Message- From: ron minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 2:44 PM To: David Aubin Cc: YhLu; LinuxBIOS Subject: RE: Filo Error Help On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, David Aubin wrote: > If so could it be a size issue

RE: Filo Error Help

2004-07-08 Thread David Aubin
The size of the elf is: ls -la boot.elf -r--r--r--1 daubin users 4059015 2004-07-08 17:46 boot.elf Dave On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 17:38, YhLu wrote: > How about the size of the elf? > > YH > > -Original Message- > From: David Aubin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July

RE: Filo Error Help

2004-07-08 Thread YhLu
I could send you my elf, but it is about 6Mb. YH -Original Message- From: ron minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 2:42 PM To: David Aubin Cc: YhLu; LinuxBIOS Subject: Re: Filo Error Help On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, David Aubin wrote: > RAMDISK: Compressed image foun

Re: CPU refactoring status....

2004-07-08 Thread ron minnich
On 8 Jul 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Ron does a branch sound good? works for me! ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

RE: Filo Error Help

2004-07-08 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, David Aubin wrote: > If so could it be a size issue? My initrd is 8Meg. oh! did you config the kernel for that? default is 4M. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Filo Error Help

2004-07-08 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, David Aubin wrote: > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 well if found the image ... > invalid compressed format (err=2) this is odd. you've got linux up, and it found an image, but it seems busted. Are you certain this initrd is ok? You could try booting the kernel

RE: Filo Error Help

2004-07-08 Thread YhLu
How about the size of the elf? YH -Original Message- From: David Aubin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 2:27 PM To: YhLu Cc: LinuxBIOS Subject: RE: Filo Error Help Hi, 1. I'm using a S2885 chipset motherboard by Tyan;) I'm using a Kingston 2.0 stick. 2. At the

RE: Filo Error Help

2004-07-08 Thread David Aubin
Hi, 1. I'm using a S2885 chipset motherboard by Tyan;) I'm using a Kingston 2.0 stick. 2. At the bottom of my original post I mention I did the elf as well. Did your elf include an initrd? If so could it be a size issue? My initrd is 8Meg. 3. Can you point me as to how to remedy this?

RE: Filo Error Help

2004-07-08 Thread David Aubin
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 17:11, YhLu wrote: 1. which MB? Which USB stick 2. please try .elf at first. It would be uda1:/ram0_2.5_2.6.5_k8.2_mydisk7.elf format your usb disk with FAT or ext2, because it seems reiserfs driver has some problem, and it will not work after abnormal shutdown. 3. I g

Re: CPU refactoring status....

2004-07-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric, would it make sense for you to send a few of us the tree so we can > take a look and see what it will involve? I'm concerned about the EPIA > port. > > i'd like to take a week or two on this if needed to make sure we are all > good on it. It loo

RE: Filo Error Help

2004-07-08 Thread YhLu
1. which MB? Which USB stick 2. please try .elf at first. It would be uda1:/ram0_2.5_2.6.5_k8.2_mydisk7.elf format your usb disk with FAT or ext2, because it seems reiserfs driver has some problem, and it will not work after abnormal shutdown. 3. I guess td is not be freed right af

Re: freebios1 sis-kernel_patch for 2.6

2004-07-08 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 14:39, Thomas Wehrspann wrote: > On Thursday 08 July 2004 16:53, Li-Ta Lo wrote: > > I can't help him with the 2.6 frame buffer neither. That driver is based > > on the "official" framebuffer driver released by SiS long time ago. It > > uses register table from vga bios image

Filo Error Help

2004-07-08 Thread David Aubin
Hello, I'm using Linux BIOS with etherboot-filo. I have a usb stick has a kernel and a usb aware initrd on it. The problem I am having is when I use etherboot-filo to boot off of uba1:/boot/vmlinuz initrd=/boot/initrd root=/dev/sda1 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200. I get this: Mounted rei

Re: freebios1 sis-kernel_patch for 2.6

2004-07-08 Thread Thomas Wehrspann
On Thursday 08 July 2004 16:53, Li-Ta Lo wrote: > I can't help him with the 2.6 frame buffer neither. That driver is based > on the "official" framebuffer driver released by SiS long time ago. It > uses register table from vga bios image so there is a lot of code doing > table parsing. It is total

Re: Linux bios and IBM Netvista 8363-EXX

2004-07-08 Thread ron minnich
we can't tell without knowing what the chipset is. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: 答复: CPU refactoring status....

2004-07-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
YhLu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The hardwaremain become more tidy. > > How about the progress about the romcc? I hope I can enable debug info while > include all ati support stuff. The major bug that was causing the core dump is fixed. As far as improving the optimizations things are workin

Linux bios and IBM Netvista 8363-EXX

2004-07-08 Thread Matt.Bellizzi
Hello I'm curious if a IBM thin client (8363-EXX or Netvista 2200) can use linuxbios? Thanks for any info ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

答复: CPU refactoring status....

2004-07-08 Thread YhLu
The hardwaremain become more tidy. How about the progress about the romcc? I hope I can enable debug info while include all ati support stuff. Regards YH -邮件原件- 发件人: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 发送时间: 2004年7月7日 21:03 收件人: LinuxBIOS 抄送: YhLu; ron minnich; Stefan Reinauer

Re: freebios1 sis-kernel_patch for 2.6

2004-07-08 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 13:33, Hendricks David W. wrote: > Ollie Lo would be the person to ask about that. He's on leave at the > moment, visiting with relatives. Please wait patiently for his respnose if > nobody else can help. > I can't help him with the 2.6 frame buffer neither. That driver i