Resounding silence... Well I guess I will have to acquire a POST card and do some digging then.
~Per Per Dalgas Jakobsen wrote: > Hi all, > > At last... Finally I have had time to look at LinuxBIOS... > I have been playing around with Etherboot and Filo for booting a > development target, making good progress. > > Up to now I have managed to add Etherboot to the original BIOS and have > it working fine. > > But now I want to LinuxBIOS my system ;-) > > I have a Lippert Cool Roadrunner II with 64MB memory and a 128MB > CompactFlash for disk, and I have tried to use LinuxBIOS v1 with its > support for this board, but no success. > > The serial port is very quite, and unfortunately I have no POST card. I > have verified the serial connection: Linux on target "$ echo Hello > >>/dev/ttyS0" gives a nice "Hello" on the receiving end (no handshakes), > > so something seems odd with the LinuxBIOS image... > > Host is i686-Linux using gcc-4.0.3 > > --- config ------------ > target /home/pdj/tuxway/builds/roadrunner2 > mainboard lippert/roadrunner2 > > # Enable Serial Console for debugging > option SERIAL_CONSOLE=1 > option TTYS0_BAUD=57600 > > option DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL=9 > option DEBUG=1 > > option RAMTEST=1 > option USE_GENERIC_ROM=1 > option USE_ELF_BOOT=1 > option ROM_SIZE=262144 > option STD_FLASH=1 > > payload ~/tuxway/etherboot-5.0.6/src/bin32/eepro100.elf > > option PAYLOAD_SIZE=196608 > --------------- > > I've hexdump'd the resulting romimage, and it looks fine as far as I can > tell: (jmp far 0xf000:0x0004 at address 0x0003fff0, and payload image > starting at 0x00000000). > > I've used the flashrom from LinuxBIOSv2-2191 for burning: > "# flashrom -w romimage" > > > Anyone able to give me a clue of what I've missed? > > Anyone had success with LinuxBIOSv2 on a Roadrunner2 ? > > > ~Per > ----------------- > > PS: > --- > My ultimate goal is fast boot to either a remote image (through > Etherboot) or a local linux on CompactFlash (filo and ext2). > > My plan was to use LinuxBIOS with a combined filo and etherboot image as > payload. > Like this: > 0x000000 FILO > 0x010000 ETHERBOOT > 0x030000 LINUXBIOS > 0x040000 > --- > I have already modified filo so an external switch can select the > boot-method. > > > -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
