On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 01:58:31PM -0700, beneo wrote:
Does filo support ext3 file system? the intruduction say it
supports ext2, but didn't say anything about ext3. If it doesn't
support ext3, does it mean I have to re-install Linux to ext2?
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 04:09:53PM -0600, Ronald G.
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 10:51:37AM -0700, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
If you ask me, you have two possible problems.
1) LinuxBIOS isn't setting up the IDE controller properly so that
your kernel can't find it
I agree.
or
2) Something in the moving the kernel and initrd to the tftp
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 06:46:51PM -0700, beneo wrote:
Then my trouble starts, every time I get a Linux Kernel Panic
during the boot. The message is like this.
Loading ext3.o module
Mounting /proc filesystem
Creating block devices
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 01:56:38PM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
Not to be a pain, but to clarify, that's a PLCC package. QFP looks
like this:
Thank you. I have been getting that wrong since the package was
invented.
Sorry.
No need to apologize.
Anyone who wants to put this in the
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 05:08:20PM -0800, ramesh bios wrote:
Yes, I was, or actually, am doubtful as well. I would
have thought, for sure, you can turn off the cs5530a's
claim of reads on that address block. But so far I
can't find any way to do that, and it doesn't seem
like anyone else has
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:22:00AM -0700, Dave Olsen wrote:
Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
- flash part is the standard QFP, not DIP.
It is definitely a QFP
Not to be a pain, but to clarify, that's a PLCC package. QFP looks
like this:
PQFP (Plastic Quad Flat Pack)
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:01:56PM -0800, ramesh bios wrote:
Oooh, looks interesting. I did not actually know what
subtractive decoding is. Now I do. After talking to
the local PCI guy, it means that the cs5530 will only
claim the transaction if it doesn't see anyone else
assert devsel# for
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:36:35AM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote:
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Peter Stuge wrote:
There are probably more sections that would be useful too.
Technical jargon? I'm still a bit confused about what payload is and
there's probably quite a few words/acronyms that are being
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:44:23PM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote:
LinuxBIOS (initialises hardware) - payload (etherboot,OpenBIOS,
FILO etc.) (- operating system)?
Exactly right. But with the right flash memory on the mainboard you
can use the operating system (Linux) as payload directly.
Ok,
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:12:33AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Jamie Rollins wrote:
I agree very strongly on this point. If linuxbios is going to move
forward, it's public face needs to be very well presented, which at
the moment, it is not. The linuxbios.org
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 03:40:44PM -0800, Adam Talbot wrote:
Humm
Ok, I will start talking it up with the sus people.
I would go for CF-IDE-adapter instead. SO much simpler.
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On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:49:51AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Peter Stuge wrote:
[..]
Hope this helps.
looks like a great FAQ entry to me
Feel free to post it anywhere you think appropriate!
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On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:31:10PM -0800, ramesh bios wrote:
I converted my bzImage using mkelfImage like so:
--kernel=./bzImage.in --output=bzImage.elf
--command-line=root=/dev/hdc2 console=tty0
console=ttyS0,38400 ro init=/sbin/init
Which version of mkelfImage are you using? There have
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:52:11PM -0800, Adam Talbot wrote:
-Ron (Linuxbios team)
Humm, had one of my strange ideas. Would it be possible to use the
linuxbios kernel as the system kernel?? So instead of calling a
new kernel through FILO or booting from etherboot, could I just
have Linux
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:47:38PM -0800, ramesh bios wrote:
I noticed you mentioned reading the nsc reference
drivers to get further understanding. Are these
available somewhere?
NSC offered the BLDT, BootLoader Development Toolkit, without an
agreement of exclusivity and without licensing
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 08:19:47AM -0600, Bari Ari wrote:
Anyone ever get the VSA ROM to work with LinuxBIOS?
I don't think so. I had a document describing how to set up VSA that
I acquired outside of NDA (download from NSC website) with which one
could have made a VSM loader for LinuxBIOS, but
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 09:53:15AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Peter Stuge wrote:
Ouch! Does anyone know what the problem is?
No
Also, do you recall which models any of those mainboards were?
every model I've had with a 3V pci bus.
Aha, a 5V PCI card
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:08:39AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Adam Sulmicki wrote:
of curiosity. How much do you guesstimate it would increase cost
of the PIC if they add added built-in ethernet to it? $0.50 ?
(not really sure if Geode cpu has build in ethernet
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 08:49:51PM -0600, Bari Ari wrote:
Why even consider x86?
Didn't someone mention Windows?
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:08:04AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Li-Ta Lo wrote:
What is BASIC Stamp and what is PIC ?
very nice small devices that are a full CPU with I/Os, and in the
case of basic stamp, a basic interpreter built in.
Specifically the PIC devices
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:07:00AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Peter Stuge wrote:
What are good features for a POST card besides being a Universal
board? (dual voltage)
you have to make sure that it won't keep a machine from turning on.
I have 5V post cards
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:54:59PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
I found the BIOS chip brand and version: Its a Winbond W290C020-90
(84400M282325601VA). Any suppliers available somehere?
Farnell has an equivalent part in stock at the very fair price of
46,43 SEK (USD 7) for single quantities.
I
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:18:00PM -0700, Li-Ta Lo wrote:
The only problem is how do we do a non-recursive broad first
tree traversal?
If recursion is the only problem and RAM is up then plain iteration
and a manual stack could work.
//Peter
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:38:57AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
Where can I purchase a replacement BIOS chip? Placed in a socket on
the main board is a 2x16 pin DIL labeled: 686 AMI BIOS 1995 CS
9.
Please remove the shiny sticker and check how the actual package is
marked. You're looking
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 04:58:57PM -0500, Dave Aubin wrote:
Has no one else hit this? One idea I have being a PIC lover is
To use some LED's on the mother board and make a serial protocol
Over the LED's, much like a software UART for a PIC.
Anyone have an input on this?
That will work
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 02:25:47PM -0500, Dave Aubin wrote:
Nice read Peter, thank you for the info:)
No problem!
Would be nice to use some voltage reference differencing
Instead of using a Max 232, but the Max is probably a cleaner
approach.
The MAX232 is pretty common for connecting both
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 11:49:25AM +0800, Gin wrote:
I could build an image now. Thanks all.
I am curious about how fallback image and normal image are used. It
looks like in the normal image, it always jumps to the Protected_start.
I don't think it should be the start when the system boots
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 08:15:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That message is from the original freebios. I was thinking that
shadowing is not corretly set up and that maybe the
segment is write-protected. After setting up shadowing,
the chipset my turn on write protection by default,
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:48:38PM -0700, Dmitry Borisov wrote:
Hi Ron - did ya'll get a chance to work on this at all?
no, sorry, will try this week :-)
ron
C'mon Ron,
You just lazy. Jump on it !
Dmitry/
Dmitry, I believe most readers on the list do understand that this
was
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 03:55:42PM -0400, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
Has anyone run across a prototyping socket for a TSOP?
Yes.
Emulation Technology has test sockets for TSOP packages.
http://www.emulation.com/catalog/off-the-shelf_solutions/sockets/tsop/
I got a quote for single pieces at $15 or
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 04:07:58PM +0100, Matt Jarvis wrote:
A cursory google throws up loads of stuff about doing this :
http://www.devhood.com/tutorials/tutorial_details.aspx?tutorial_id=313
http://jaeger.morpheus.net/linux/ntldr.html
Personally I would use grub, but each to their
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:35:01AM -0400, David Aubin wrote:
Thank yo for the image, but oddly it fails exactly the
same way
Found initrd block 0
crc error
I'm using reiserfs, I'll try ext2. I'm really running out
of ideas.
For the initrd? I believe only ext2, minix, cramfs and
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 06:01:56PM +0200, Mathieu Deschamps wrote:
What I'am gaining with Linuxbios experience I'll try to give back in
somehow i could, don't you feel this ?.
I agree! :) I think the lbcc script can be very useful!
We had hoped to hash these issues out at the linuxbios
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:32:58PM -0500, Richard Smith wrote:
Peter Stuge wrote:
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:56:29AM -0500, Richard Smith wrote:
timer. In numerious locations my Vbios is writing a 0x00 to IO 0x43 and
then does 2 reads from 0x40. So its latching the value of counter 0
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 04:06:41PM -0600, ron minnich wrote:
I hope this doesn't have to become a big problem, we should be able
to just talk about it and straighten any issues out. It has been
done online before.
We'll all cool off over the weekend and work it out next week.
Sounds
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:56:29AM -0500, Richard Smith wrote:
timer. In numerious locations my Vbios is writing a 0x00 to IO 0x43 and
then does 2 reads from 0x40. So its latching the value of counter 0 and
then reading it out.
Right, it also sets counter mode 0, zero detection interrupt.
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 09:42:20PM -0700, YhLu wrote:
OHCI usb boot ok now.
Agree with Eric, congratulations! :)
But it is some slow, only 173KB/S,
Full speed should be 12Mbps/8 = 1500KB/s
Actually not. 12Mbps is the speed on the USB wire and each of the
protocols in the stack and in the
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 02:10:56PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
What format is this image?
The LinuxBIOS image itself is just a raw 1:1 image of what needs
to be burned to the flash chip. No headers, no bells, no whistles.
Often called binary in the programming software I've seen.
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:19:24PM -0700, manisha s wrote:
Hi All,
I m new to this mailing list.
I want to boot my laptop from 128Mb Compact Flash(CF)
Card.
On laptop i have already RedHat 9 with kernel version
2.4.22.
This has little to do with LinuxBIOS I'm afraid.
I downloaded the
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 12:02:23AM +0200, Jochen Roemling wrote:
Brian Maly wrote:
you can do (1) kernel on DoC, use (2) FILO to boot a kernel off the HD,
or (3) etherboot to load the kernel from the network.
Okay, this is still not quite understood:
Currently there are a number of
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 03:13:51PM -0700, YhLu wrote:
I talked to lsi again, and they will do sth.
Great news, even if we haven't seen the results. Thanks a lot! :)
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On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:37:37PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
Mathieu I'd rather like to make a backup copy of my bios in another
Mathieu chip and then to cold plug this copy to work with Linuxbios.
Mathieu Has anyone felt this worry .
Same here.
I feel that the reliance on
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 06:10:59PM -0600, ron minnich wrote:
I've asked sourceforge about LANL paying them some amount per year for
premium service, which would mean you guys would get instant
turnaround on checkouts. They've never replied to me on this question.
I think they're missing an
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 07:36:32PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
for my hardware. The crucial thing is whether the BIOS chip is socketed
or not. We'll see, at least I know the size is 2Mbit, since the latest
BIOS binary (A6120IMS.200) supported by MSI is 261144kbyte. Does anybody
have
Hi!
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:55:32PM -0800, Tina Declerck wrote:
- Does the Linux BIOS do discovery on PCI slots for the existance
of cards?
Yes, LinuxBIOS enumerates PCI buses behind hosts and bridges.
- Will it use PCI configuration space to locate the Basic Address
Register (BAR) to
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 05:10:44PM -0800, YhLu wrote:
Eric,
I put the the dhcpcd in the initrd. After boot system with LinuxBIOS +
Etherboot + elf ( with the initrd). I found the IP got by Etherboot and
dhcpcd is different.
I may only used fixed option in dhcpd.conf to make it get the
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 10:28:45AM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Peter Stuge wrote:
Do you know the LinuxBIOS status on it? Is it different from plain EPIA?
it's the 6000 I think, a variant of the -M
Yes, EPIA-CL6000E is what I'm looking at.
(www.viavpsd.com - Mainboards
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 12:45:32PM -0500, Tarl Neustaedter wrote:
More likely reflex; posting to the general list leaves your
email address exposed on the web for spammers to find and add
to their lists. The ~130 spams I receive every day have
sharpened my reflexes into almost never sending
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:20:05AM -0700, Li-Ta Lo wrote:
It is done. We have AGP 8x and HW 3D acceleration
now. We can even run tuxracer ;-).
Great work!
Does it automagically work with many different cards? :p
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 05:10:21PM +, Surjan Singh wrote:
Just wanted to highlight a website I found that actually sells the same
BIOS chips that are used in the bog standard EPIA board
I'd just order them from Memec, a global SST sales agent.
(I believe Unique Memec is the right place.)
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 08:27:55AM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
[..]
the 8111 is the pci connection. register 3e.b in 8111 is set to 0xf, which
should pass vga i/o to the pci bus.
the vga card, using Ollie's 'userio' program, does not respond to byte
accesses to 0x3cc or 0x3d4. Under
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:52:20PM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Peter Stuge wrote:
I'm not quite sure about the status of the EPIA port in the version 2 CVS
tree, but it's there and there's been work put into it so it should probably
compile and work just fine.
EPIA
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 12:05:12AM -0800, Erdem Guven wrote:
Hi,
I want to run linuxbios on a sis645dx board. I think
there is no support for this chipset.
Can someone give me some advice about:
- compatibility with sis630 or other supported
chipsets
No idea about this one.
- Is it a
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 08:10:13AM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am migrating LinuxBIOS from vt5426 to PCChips M787CL( NB: VT8601 ,SB:
VT82C686B),and I want to use ISA slot.I think that LinuxBIOS doesn't
need to initialize ISA slot, the devices
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:53:08PM -0600, Bari Ari wrote:
Just heard that AMD is doing away with the VSA nonsense on all the
Geodes and opening up all the register specs for what used to be only
controlled via the VSA binaries.
Excellent!
Even if they're doing it only on new Geodes the
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:31:46AM -0500, Evan Langlois wrote:
The boot image in this case would be a proprietary piece of software for
real-time network filtering. The algorythm for which is patented
technology. A user-input encryption key doesn't make sense as the box
is stand-alone and
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:55:56PM +0200, Evan Langlois wrote:
The smart-card suggestion someone posed might be an idea.
I like the Schlumberger (now: Axalto) Cryptoflex[1] (NB not Cyberflex) cards
a lot. I have a few e-gate 32K[2] cards that I'm playing with here, I'm
using the USB token, but i
Hi everyone.
This has a lot of basic stuff probably already well known on the list, but I
figured it might help someone. Felt like documenting a little. :)
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:10:54PM +0100, Terry Blunt wrote:
I *very* much like the idea of having as much of my system as possible
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:26:01PM +0200, Evan Langlois wrote:
I don't know much about FILO.
I should have included the URL where it lives: http://te.to/~ts1/filo/
Sorry about that.
Can anyone comment on its compatibility with the LILO graphical features
(displaying graphical menus/splash
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:04:37PM -0400, Thomas Fritz wrote:
I have access to a few WBTs at a surplus place, and I've dug up the
specs on them:
Cyrix Pentium clone - 266MHz
up to 128MB SDRAM
ports: PS/2 keyb/mouse, 2 USB 1.1, 2 serial, 1 parallel, 10/100
ethernet, and sound in/out
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 10:15:40PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi ,
How do I extract the VGA BIOS from the Insyde ExpressROM??the same way as in
case of the EPIA will work? ANd in that case ... how can we find out IF it
uses some calls that are implemented in the underlying XpressROM
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:18:48PM -0400, Gregg C Levine wrote:
-Original Message-
XpressLOADER is another name for the BLDT, available from either
Insyde or NSC. (I believe it's still NSC.)
Perhaps. But NSC's webpage insists that they have indeed sold the
entire line to AMD,
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:14:42PM +0900, SONE Takeshi wrote:
you need to confirm that int #5 is a VSA interrupt of some sort.
I don't know what VSA is, but int 6 is the Invalid Opcode Exception,
VSA is the name of a NSC system to allow for software implementations of
legacy hardware. VSMs
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:50:03PM +0530, Deepak Kotian wrote:
Thanks Ron. The documentation would do a lot of good to
many in the forum for the new comers (including
me)
Lot of queries should get resolved automatically.
The cvs seems to have support of lot of motherboards now, but I
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 08:29:48PM +0100, Alessio Sangalli wrote:
Steve Gehlbach wrote:
I tried a 954MB (ls -lh) file on pcchips 787cl+ (sis900, via C3, 320Mb
ram), and it took 22:20 using scp, no compression. Since I have a
10baseT network, using ssh, and other traffic, this seems about
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:19:19PM -0500, John van Vlaaderen wrote:
Thanks Peter, but... maybe i should have said:
...In relation to LinuxBIOS...
We know what X and a vgabios are -- what I am asking about are
references on this mailing list to writing X into a vgabios -- maybe
VIA --
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:14:53PM -0500, John van Vlaaderen wrote:
I am writing a glossary right now and I need to know the difference
between:
vgabios, framebuffer and X
Wow, ok, not that this is the best place, but ok.
LinuxBIOS is currently mostly operational on what's commonly
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:14:53PM -0500, John van Vlaaderen wrote:
Hello - confused newbie here !!
The linuxbios chat, I can follow but I am very intrigued by the vgabios
since it will help linux on the nanofront and advance my own thinman
model ***
I am writing a glossary right now
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 03:29:52AM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote:
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:48:06PM -0500, steven james wrote:
biosbase 0x
The BIOS image will begin at the biosbase address in the CPU's memory
space
imagephysaddr
or
stage1physaddr
Doh, forget I wrote
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:40:37PM -, James Finnie wrote:
I currently use the /dev/bios work for flashing BIOS in a production
evironment on a GX1+5530A platform. It works great. It may not work out of
the box for SC2200/SC1200 (I have no experience on these platforms), but it
would be
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 04:19:12PM +0530, Yogesh Desai wrote:
** Proprietary **
Please refrain from sending confidential, proprietary or similar emails to
public mailing lists. It makes it unclear whether we are allowed to read
your email and answer your question(s). Please also note that
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 06:13:33PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
* Peter Stuge [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021214 16:04]:
The kernel framebuffer driver from NatSemi will work just fine without
XpressGRAPHICS though - it's just legacy VGA emulation that doesn't work.
Which version of the fb driver
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:30:35PM +0100, Christer Weinigel wrote:
IIRC, the VSA2 BIOS requires a few INT 15H services to work, so with
Bochs in LinuxBIOS it should be possible to just do as you say. The
exact procedure is documented in some NatSemi document that I don't
know if I have access
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 06:45:45PM -0500, Adam Bezanson wrote:
Hi,
I've got an Eval card from National Semi that contains
the SC1200. I'd like to try LinuxBios on it.
I've downloaded both the 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 kernels to start with.
What patches do I need to apply to the kernel?
Is there a
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 10:20:28PM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
Just cut the appropriate bus line?
nope. then you can't write control registers.
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:35:28PM +, Justin Cormack wrote:
Just cut the appropriate bus line?
No, but you can buy CF with a write protect
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 06:39:16PM -0500, Nicholas Mistry wrote:
I am looking finding alternatives to having a physical harddrive in my
machine, i was wondering if anyone here has experience w/ either of the
following. My goal is to boot LinuxBIOS out of flash, and then Linux off
a Solid
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 07:05:58PM -0500, Adam Sulmicki wrote:
you can find nice example how to use it in linux sources
(some file in linux/arch/i386/boot, head.S IIRC)
Using it is the easy part, I had to implement it. Fortunately that project
got dropped before I tore all my hair off. :)
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 08:24:35PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
Anybody have a good idea in the long term about how to solve the DoC mess.
Maybe put the DoC on the ISA bus? Will require a special LinuxBIOS PCB but
only when you really want/need DoC..
M-Systems has an AN on this, I think
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