Re: epia problem/Epia status update

2004-12-03 Thread mark . wilkinson
Ron, Consider me Pre-Pinged ! I've already e-mailed Luc and the list, I guess you haven't caught up with your e-mail yet :-) There is definately a need to add the following 2 lines to mainboard/via/epia/Options.lb use CONFIG_CONSOLE_SERIAL8250 default CONFIG_CONSOLE_SERIAL8250=1 Current status

Re: epia problem/Epia status update

2004-12-03 Thread Luc Belliveau
Thanks for the feedback, those lines helped. Now I get as far as: Welcome to elfboot, the open sourced starter. January 2002, Eric Bierderman. Version 1.3 And it sits there... should it be doing something else before it loads up FILO, or does this mean LinuxBIOS has finished it's job and now I n

Re: epia problem/Epia status update

2004-12-03 Thread Luc Belliveau
Oh, ok. I just tried an etherboot payload, and that loads. So it must be my FILO config. .. I don't even get the boot: prompt.. I'm going to try the etherboot ide_disk maybe and and see what that does. Any ideas what's going on with FILO? Luc Belliveau wrote: Thanks for the feedback, those li

Re: epia problem/Epia status update

2004-12-03 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Luc Belliveau wrote: > > Oh, ok. I just tried an etherboot payload, and that loads. So it must be my > FILO config. .. I don't even get the boot: prompt.. I'm going to try the > etherboot ide_disk maybe and and see what that does. wow. Usually here it's always etherboot

Re: epia problem/Epia status update

2004-12-03 Thread Luc Belliveau
yes, that could help. Thanks Luc Ronald G. Minnich wrote: On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Luc Belliveau wrote: Oh, ok. I just tried an etherboot payload, and that loads. So it must be my FILO config. .. I don't even get the boot: prompt.. I'm going to try the etherboot ide_disk maybe and and see what tha

Re: epia problem/Epia status update

2004-12-03 Thread Luc Belliveau
umm.. ok now FILO loads, but I get "IDE channel 0 not found" Ronald G. Minnich wrote: On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Luc Belliveau wrote: Oh, ok. I just tried an etherboot payload, and that loads. So it must be my FILO config. .. I don't even get the boot: prompt.. I'm going to try the etherboot ide_dis

Re: epia problem/Epia status update

2004-12-03 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Luc Belliveau wrote: > > umm.. ok now FILO loads, but I get "IDE channel 0 not found" This is a good sign. trust me. I'll try to build you a better one :-) ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermat

Re: epia problem/Epia status update

2004-12-03 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Luc Belliveau wrote: > > umm.. ok now FILO loads, but I get "IDE channel 0 not found" this means your filo build is broken. send me your defconfig for filo. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermat

Re: epia problem/Epia status update

2004-12-04 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Luc Belliveau wrote: > > Same thing, with one small difference... I turned debugging on and this is > what I get : hmm. > > find_ide_controller: found PCI IDE controller 1106:0571 prog_if=0x8f > find_ide_controller: primary channel: native PCI mode > find_ide_controller:

Re: epia problem/Epia status update

2004-12-04 Thread Luc Belliveau
Same thing, with one small difference... I turned debugging on and this is what I get : find_ide_controller: found PCI IDE controller 1106:0571 prog_if=0x8f find_ide_controller: primary channel: native PCI mode find_ide_controller: cmd_base=0x0 ctrl_base=0x0 ide_software_reset: Waiting for ide0 t

Re: epia problem/Epia status update

2004-12-04 Thread Luc Belliveau
No effect. Here is the output when I boot: LinuxBIOS-1.1.7.0Normal Sat Dec 4 10:16:38 AST 2004 starting... 87 is the comm register SMBus controller enabled vt8601 init starting is the north 1106 0601 0120d4 is the computed timing NOP PREC

Re: epia problem/Epia status update

2004-12-04 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
ok, just double check that your ide is right, and can somebody send me an lspci for these boards? I don't have one handy. Finally, I do know that native ide mode was always buggy on this part. Is that a possibility here? ron ___ Linuxbios mailing li

Re: epia problem/Epia status update

2004-12-04 Thread Luc Belliveau
Here is the output from lspci on my board *00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia] (rev 05) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia AGP] 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8231 [PCI-to-ISA Bridge] (rev 10) 00:11.1 IDE interface: VI

Re: epia problem/Epia status update

2004-12-04 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Luc Belliveau wrote: > > Here is the output from lspci on my board > > *00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia] (rev 05) > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia AGP] > 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT823

Re: epia problem/Epia status update

2004-12-04 Thread Adam Sulmicki
with all this talk on the list about epia.. does anyone knwo off hand how to change this "wait 4 seconds reboot" to instantenous reboot when I press the on button? sh-2.05b# cat /proc/cpuinfo vendor_id : CentaurHauls model name : VIA Samuel 2 sh-2.05b# /sbin/lspci pcilib: Cannot open

Re: epia problem/Epia status update

2004-12-04 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Adam Sulmicki wrote: > > with all this talk on the list about epia.. does anyone knwo off hand how to > change this "wait 4 seconds reboot" to instantenous reboot when I press the on > button? you mean machine is on, and you want it to cycle real fast? we need to figure o

RE: epia problem/Epia status update

2004-12-04 Thread Yinghai Lu
You can enable debug in filo. Also add some printf in ide_disk.c YH -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luc Belliveau Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 9:32 AM To: Ronald G. Minnich Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: epia problem/Epia status

Re: epia problem/Epia status update

2004-12-06 Thread mark . wilkinson
Hi Ron, Luc, Quoting "Ronald G. Minnich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Luc Belliveau wrote: Here is the output from lspci on my board *00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia] (rev 05) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8601 [Apollo ProMedia AGP] 00

Re: epia problem/Epia status update

2004-12-06 Thread Adam Sulmicki
with all this talk on the list about epia.. does anyone knwo off hand how to change this "wait 4 seconds reboot" to instantenous reboot when I press the on button? you mean machine is on, and you want it to cycle real fast? yeah. When I was looking over sis chipset docs I saw that you could setup

Re: epia problem/Epia status update

2004-12-06 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Adam Sulmicki wrote: > however, lokoing over vt82c686 docs seems like there's no corresponding > capability :-( don't give up. If VIA has wired a GPIO pin to power control, then it might still be possible. Not sure. ron ___ Lin