That board has a VIA vt82c686b south on it? I built linuxbios for a similar VIA board (endat) with an 8601 north and vt82c686b south. That won't work with the epia or epia-m configs. but you can go from the via/vt5426 config. You are perhaps getting garbage serial output because you're setting up serial for the wrong superio.
Have you figured out how to enable flash memory write? I have two 686 datasheets which seem to contradict one another on how it's done. one appears like the 8231 south, and another alike the sis630. Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741-1191 On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Leon Woestenberg wrote: > Hello, > > I have been fiddling with etherboot 5.0.10 and freebios(v1) from CVS today > on a EPIA-ME6000 platform. > > This is the unit with a low speed clock (500MHz?) Eden C3 processor > which copes with passive cooling. I think it is EPIA-M9000 alike otherwise. > > Using a hardware flash programmer, I first copied the VIA BIOS from the > STT39SF040A (256Kbytes) into a STMicro 29F040B (512Kbytes) device. > > That only worked after I copied the BIOS into the upper half of the larger > device (from 0x40000 to 0x7FFFF). So I recon the highest address line > is not connected on the board and so the FlashROM sees high-impedance > on its most significant address line (and addresses the upper half always)> > > I followed the HOWTO/EPIA document to the letter (without the VGA > BIOS at first) booting linuxbios w/ via-rhine.elf payload. > > When booting, I merely got garbled output on the serial port. > > I have double checked that the config file reads 115200 and that my > terminal reads 115200 8N1. (The 115200 is assembly hardcoded in > the vt82c686 superio code -- does it cope with my different processor > speed? I do not have the datasheet (yet?). > > After that, I have tried all speeds on the terminal without result. > > Is the EPIA-ME6000 (aka M6000) already reported to work here, > or are you guys'n'gals refering to the M9000 and M10000 alone? > > How can I help? > > Regards, > > Leon. > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
