Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxTag Berlin 29/5-2/6

2007-05-26 Thread Russ Whitaker
On Sun, 27 May 2007, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 05:29:28PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: >>> >>> No, this is purely to get 640x480 textmode to work on the CRT Shouldn't that be vga video mode 3, 720x400 res, which gives 80x25 text? Russ -- linuxbios mailing list linuxb

Re: [LinuxBIOS] IDE become readonly, why?

2007-04-05 Thread Russ Whitaker
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Beneo wrote: > Yes, see below: > > Beneo > > --- > [root@(none) etc]# cat inittab > # > # inittab This file describes how the INIT process should set up > # the system in a certain run-level. > # > # Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Store cmos on flash

2007-03-14 Thread Russ Whitaker
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Peter Stuge wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 12:53:09PM +0100, Thomas Ekstrand (AL/EAB) wrote: >>> Is there a way to store cmos settings in the BIOS flash chip? > > Nothing prepared, no. Of course you could put defaults into code for > your particular target.

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Please explain why is some hardware not supported even though it runs fine in linux

2007-03-08 Thread Russ Whitaker
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Michal Pomorski wrote: > > Take for instance nForce2 chipset and please correct me if i am wrong. > Linux have full hardware support for it right ? (it should since i use one) > Linux doesnt use bios functions because it controlls all the hardware on > the motherboard right?

Re: [LinuxBIOS] next meeting

2007-03-07 Thread Russ Whitaker
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, ron minnich wrote: > We talked about having the next meeting in Taiwan, but there were a > number of issues. So we thought about california. I am partial to CA > as I am moving there in a few weeks. > > I would like to propose this place: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marin

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Filo boot from CD-Rom syntax

2007-01-30 Thread Russ Whitaker
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Takeshi Sone wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:40:26AM -0800, Russ Whitaker wrote: >> On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, roger wrote: >>> Can somebody please update the Filo README file (and/or the Linuxbios >>> Filo documentation) to including the followi

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Filo boot from CD-Rom syntax

2007-01-30 Thread Russ Whitaker
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, roger wrote: > Can somebody please update the Filo README file (and/or the Linuxbios > Filo documentation) to including the following concerning CD-ROM device > file syntax? > > ie. CD-ROM device is to be specified as "hdc1" and not "hdc"! > > > Following is the relevant Fil

Re: [LinuxBIOS] help from ubuntu and FC6 experts

2007-01-25 Thread Russ Whitaker
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Corey Osgood wrote: [..] > > BTW, if you still want/need it, here's the error log compiled under > Ubuntu 6.10 x64, with ubuntu's gcc 4.1.2: > According to the gcc home page gcc-4.1.2 will be released any day now. Russ -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org h

Re: [LinuxBIOS] recieving old messages again?

2006-12-27 Thread Russ Whitaker
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Corey Osgood wrote: > Anyone else getting old messages from the mailing list sent to them > again? I just had two resent to me, one from discussion about usb > debugging, and another about the AMD PIC. > Did a diff on the 2 AMD PIC messages. They are *almost* but not quite t

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios for Tyan Tiger MPX (S2466)

2006-12-09 Thread Russ Whitaker
's website and followed their directions. As I recall it was put the update on a floppy, boot the box with a ms windows bootdisk while holding down a key, and then insert the floppy. Russ > On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 22:39 -0800, Russ Whitaker wrote: >> >> On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Core

Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBios for Tyan Tiger MPX (S2466)

2006-12-08 Thread Russ Whitaker
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Corey Osgood wrote: > ron minnich wrote: >> On 12/8/06, nate iverson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Where do I find out what needs to be done for the porting of linuxbios >>> for the Tyan Tiger MPX (S2466) motherboard? The website just says it >>> isn't support in version1. >

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Disassembly?

2006-11-30 Thread Russ Whitaker
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Drew Lundsten wrote: > Although I haven't seen discussion of disassembling factory BIOS, I > would think this has been discussed; why is this not routine, or > effective, for these unruly Intel chipsets which can't get DRAM happy? > > Not that I would look forward to disasse

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Support for recent chipset and powerful desktop CPU

2006-11-29 Thread Russ Whitaker
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Simon Labrecque wrote: > I'm asking because obviously I don't know the answer, but can't a serial > port on a PCI card be used? Wouldn't that be simpler than through-USB > debugging? > > If not, well I'll find a new board, but I like the fact that this board is > already pas

Re: [LinuxBIOS] google, qa.linuxbios.org

2006-11-16 Thread Russ Whitaker
Be prepaired for a flood of intrest. Mr. Barr's email is just a start. An article on linuxbios was posted on slashdot ( http://slashdot.org ) this am. And your server got "slashdotted". Russ On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, David H. Barr wrote: > From... > http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2006