Re: [LinuxBIOS] trying to boot gigabyte m57sli-s4

2007-03-19 Thread Lu, Yinghai
For MAC address: 1. make the flashrom util to take MAC address and GUUID as command parameter. 2. use flashrom with excluding range to keep MAC address in the flash. YH -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] trying to boot gigabyte m57sli-s4

2007-03-19 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Lu, Yinghai [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070319 21:04]: For MAC address: 1. make the flashrom util to take MAC address and GUUID as command parameter. 2. use flashrom with excluding range to keep MAC address in the flash. where is it stored? Which area must stay untouched? I can add a .layout file

Re: [LinuxBIOS] trying to boot gigabyte m57sli-s4

2007-03-19 Thread Lu, Yinghai
@linuxbios.org Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] trying to boot gigabyte m57sli-s4 * Lu, Yinghai [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070319 21:04]: For MAC address: 1. make the flashrom util to take MAC address and GUUID as command parameter. 2. use flashrom with excluding range to keep MAC address in the flash. where

Re: [LinuxBIOS] trying to boot gigabyte m57sli-s4

2007-03-19 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Lu, Yinghai [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070319 21:57]: I'm not sure on Legacy bios, ward could check that for you. But for LinuxBIOS, I put them at last 16x3 bytes. 0xffd0 that would be 32 bytes, no? if it is 48 bytes, any changes to the reset vector are not found. How big is the actual

Re: [LinuxBIOS] trying to boot gigabyte m57sli-s4

2007-03-19 Thread Lu, Yinghai
16 bytes. -Original Message- From: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 2:08 PM To: Lu, Yinghai Cc: Ward Vandewege; yhlu; linuxbios@linuxbios.org Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] trying to boot gigabyte m57sli-s4 * Lu, Yinghai [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070319 21:57

Re: [LinuxBIOS] trying to boot gigabyte m57sli-s4

2007-03-12 Thread Ward Vandewege
Yinghai, any thoughts on this? Thanks, Ward. On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 02:33:12PM -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:17:32PM -0800, Lu, Yinghai wrote: Please try 64bit latest kernel. OK, I tried a stock 2.6.20.1 kernel. This kernel boots fine with the proprietary BIOS

Re: [LinuxBIOS] trying to boot gigabyte m57sli-s4

2007-03-12 Thread ST
Please check the boot log. The bootlog looks fine. I am still having problems here getting a kernel booted without the noapic option (stock bios updated to f7). 2.6.20.2 gives me: ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=0 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected

Re: [LinuxBIOS] trying to boot gigabyte m57sli-s4

2007-03-12 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 09:11:43PM +0100, ST wrote: Please check the boot log. The bootlog looks fine. I am still having problems here getting a kernel booted without the noapic option (stock bios updated to f7). 2.6.20.2 gives me: ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=0

Re: [LinuxBIOS] trying to boot gigabyte m57sli-s4

2007-03-12 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 04:47:19PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 09:42:59PM +0100, ST wrote: Thanks for your quick answer. Booting 2.6.20.1 with noapic works for me: yah, but i'd really like to use both processors of this X2 ... So am i right that you can't boot

Re: [LinuxBIOS] trying to boot gigabyte m57sli-s4

2007-03-12 Thread Quux
Ward Vandewege schrieb: Besides does anybody know if the second free place on the PCB is still connected in a proper way to enable diy dual boot bios. Does anybody know which spi flash type is placed on the m57sli-s4. Uhm - none I think. If you look closely at the second (free) place,

Re: [LinuxBIOS] trying to boot gigabyte m57sli-s4

2007-03-08 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:17:32PM -0800, Lu, Yinghai wrote: Please try 64bit latest kernel. Please find the boot log for 2.6.15-amd64 (standard Ubuntu Dapper kernel) attached. Same problem it seems. I'll try a stock 2.6.20.1 after lunch and send in the boot log. Thanks, Ward. -- Ward

Re: [LinuxBIOS] trying to boot gigabyte m57sli-s4

2007-03-08 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:17:32PM -0800, Lu, Yinghai wrote: Please try 64bit latest kernel. OK, I tried a stock 2.6.20.1 kernel. This kernel boots fine with the proprietary BIOS (see attached file minicom-gb-20070308-07-with-noapic.cap). With LinuxBIOS, it doesn't even get to the kernel panic -

Re: [LinuxBIOS] trying to boot gigabyte m57sli-s4

2007-03-06 Thread Ward Vandewege
I should have attached the lspci output(s) - here they are. Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator $ lspci :00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller (rev a1) :00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation

Re: [LinuxBIOS] trying to boot gigabyte m57sli-s4

2007-03-06 Thread Lu, Yinghai
Please try 64bit latest kernel. YH -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: [LinuxBIOS] trying to boot gigabyte m57sli-s4

2007-03-06 Thread Ward Vandewege
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:17:32PM -0800, Lu, Yinghai wrote: Please try 64bit latest kernel. OK, I'll do that on Thursday. Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org

Re: [LinuxBIOS] trying to boot gigabyte m57sli-s4

2007-03-06 Thread Peter Stuge
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:13:02PM -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote: [ 81.526599] pcie_portdrv_probe-Dev[0376:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check [..] The interesting thing is that those pci ids don't exist on the board. [..] PCI: 00:0a.0 [10de/0376] enabled Seems the first code has vendor/device