Re: EPIA VGA and keyboard fail when booting from V2 linuxbios

(1)kernel: linux-2.4.26 (2)freebios2: latest(08/23)cvs freebios2 (3)there is no any vga handle of via epia under freebios2 zhu --- ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what version kernel? 2.6. now has a nice feature, early serial console output, useful for debug. ron

help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+

Hi, I'm getting C1 (pause 6 seconds) C6, hang on the post card. I modified the smartcore-p3 (also 440BX based. Possibly there's 0x10 for an instant to start. I'll post all the lspci stuff tomorrow, just wondering if those post codes ring a bell for anyone. I can't find those in the code

Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+

* Jeremy Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040824 08:51]: Hi, I'm getting C1 (pause 6 seconds) C6, hang on the post card. I modified the smartcore-p3 (also 440BX based. Possibly there's 0x10 for an instant to start. I'll post all the lspci stuff tomorrow, just wondering if those post codes

vgainit.inc halt epia

Q1: (1)freebios v1 (2)MB: epia (3)Kernel: 2.4.26 (4)I try to turn vga on following the steps in EPIA howto. But MB halt on executing vgainit.inc. Q2: (1)freebios V2 (2)MB: epia (3)kernel: 2.4.26 (4)I can boot filo from IDE CF, when jump to linux, I can't see any messages from vga or serial.

Re: EPIA VGA and keyboard fail when booting from V2 linuxbios

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, zhu shi song wrote: (3)there is no any vga handle of via epia under freebios2 You'll need to go back in this list, this type of work has been done but it gets complicated. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Jeremy Jackson wrote: Hi, I'm getting C1 (pause 6 seconds) C6, hang on the post card. I modified the smartcore-p3 (also 440BX based. Possibly there's 0x10 for an instant to start. 10 is an early post. C1 I will have to look up. Anyone who wants to make up a post

Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+

I already have serial... but the problem was an incomplete flashing. I'm guessing the NIC I was using seems to be only wired for the 1st 64k, and the previous contents in the upper half of the 128k part (old bios from other mobo) were writing the c1..c6 post codes Uniflash to the rescue!

Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+

Jeremy Jackson wrote: Any ideas about the etherboot no heap found? Seems 16M isn't enough. swapping for a 256M DIMM fixes it. Son of a gun it boots fast! I can't stop giggling. -- Jeremy Jackson Coplanar Networks (519)897-1516 http://www.coplanar.net

Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Jeremy Jackson wrote: I already have serial... but the problem was an incomplete flashing. I'm guessing the NIC I was using seems to be only wired for the 1st 64k, and the previous contents in the upper half of the 128k part (old bios from other mobo) were writing the

Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+

cool, tell us more about this mobo, and send me patches for it. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+

ron minnich wrote: cool, tell us more about this mobo, and send me patches for it. Superio is it8671f, which is different from digitallogic/smartcore-p3 Well, I can netboot Linux or memetest86 using etherboot. Intel e100. Linux can mount root from an IDE CD-ROM, but the network card(s) don't

Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Jeremy Jackson wrote: Well, I can netboot Linux or memetest86 using etherboot. Intel e100. Linux can mount root from an IDE CD-ROM, but the network card(s) don't work, so no NFS root. Manual ifconfig doesn't help. The cards can send, but don't seem to recieve. I

Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 11:58, Jeremy Jackson wrote: ron minnich wrote: what's getpir say? Running on Linuxbios? In that case: No, we need it under factory bios. Ollie ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+

Li-Ta Lo wrote: No, we need it under factory bios. the one generated by vendor BIOS: $ cd util/getpir $ make test Validating checksum, file: irq_tables.c that was in ./ at compile time... (no other tests are done) BAD CHECKSUM for IRQ Routing table If you want to make it valid, change

Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+

you want to use that irq_tables.c for your mainboard irq_tables.c that might fix it. I assume you ran this one NOT under linuxbios, if you did run it under linuxbios, then reboot with fuctory bios and run it again. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list

Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Jeremy Jackson wrote: I will try what it suggests. Where is this information used? By Linuxbios or Linux? it is compiled into linuxbios. What messages would indicate that either of those has detected the table correctly or incorrectly? just run getpir under fuctory

Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+

ron minnich wrote: just run getpir under fuctory bios and you should be ok, try that and let us know. It's ALIVE! Interrupts working now. Sorry if I bugged everyone for info in the manual, it's just so darn exciting! The only problem I had that wasn't something stupid, was that I had to

Re: help with new motherboard Soyo 6BA+

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Jeremy Jackson wrote: I can't believe it's this easy! From newb to 1st mobo up in 24 hours. now you have to write up your experiences for the web page. That title above will do :-) thanks! ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list

asus p2b

I remeber reading that asus does non-standard things with SPD. I'm trying to get a P2B up and it dosen't do ram right. Anything I can try that worked on other asus motherboards? ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]