Booting dos from freebios ?

2004-12-07 Thread Arun
Hi all, We have downloaded freebios 1.0 and we are trying to boot freebios on National Geode GX1 processor based system. We were successful enough to create a new target in freebios and boot freebios on the board with bios output on serial port . Also we tried to boot linux image minimal from

VIA Northbridge's vt8601 and vt8604

2004-12-07 Thread Adam Talbot
Can any one give the the difference between the VIA Northbridge's vt8601 and vt8604.Will the code from the vt8601 be able to boot the vt8604? -Adam Talbot

Re: Booting dos from freebios ?

2004-12-07 Thread Adam Sulmicki
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Arun wrote: Can we boot freedos from the freebios ? if you use ADLO, then yeah.. somewhat. I think I had limited success booting Win95 (read : got as far as that flying win95 flag). I think the IDE driver in ADLO needs most of the work.. (or at least that was the most

Re: K8 D0 support

2004-12-07 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Yinghai Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The D0 is released last week. And Normal BIOS support it already. Thanks for your great job in raminit.c of K8 and others, and I add several lines to reflect the new mapping of memory bank. Cool. I am confused about what the current situation is. All I

AWWWW Crap!

2004-12-07 Thread Adam Talbot
OK, I have a bios chip that my flash ROM programmer cant program... The chip is a Amic A290021TL-70. OK, I would like to buy a new chip from a different manufacture. What do I need to keep in mind when I buy a replacement chip? Here is the data sheet from the off brand chip.