Hi Leon, > 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? Have you tried 57600? EPIA-M6000 seems to have problem to use 115200 under LinuxBIOS unless it is boot from normal bios and then reset the system. That's why you are getting garbage.
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