ignore this thread as i sent it from a de-activated email account! On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 11:09, roger wrote: > I've tried smartcore-p5/ & l440bx/ and on each boot, the 440bx box still > acts like it can't find any bios (ie black screen, some minimal drive > activity, nothing on ttyS1, etc) > > >From what has been briefed to me, the DOC MIL chip will mimic a standard > flash DIP and doesn't need docipl(?) -- docipl is needed in order to use > nftl to install something like a root partition on the chip? > > I've also tried flashing the builds to a standard DIP 2Mb/256kb flash > (even though I know it doesn't fit :-). > > One thing I will note tho, I do have to use openbios/devbios to burn the > standard AMTEL 32pin DIP Flash as for some reason linux mtd will fail to > recognize these chips (even after I unshadow flash to the chipset by > hacking devbios module to *not* unshadow after being unloaded. > > I do know that openbios/devbios is flashing properly as I mistakenly > flashed my original manuf bios flash chip and then had to re-flash it > and then flash another chip for backup incase it failed. Amazingly both > chips worked and both had good copies of the manuf. bios on them. ;-) --
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