Richard Smith wrote: > On 4/24/06, Eric Poulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Okay, >> >> I tried awardeco, and it DOES NOT list the VGA ROM, but CBROM (under the >> "dosbox" emulator) worked well. >> > > Please keep track of your procedure, what tools worked and didn't > work, where you got them from, etc so we can put it on the wiki. > I've done a LOT of things, but they mostly didn't work =)
When this is all over, I'll write up a set of instructions, and follow them from a clean install to see if I've got it all down. > >> Only one thing -- the extracted VGA ROM is _exactly_ 64000 bytes >> (instead of 65536) -- do I need to pad it out (with zeros?) before >> concatenating it with LinuxBIOS to achieve the final burnable image? >> > > Yes. dd can snap it to the right size for you. You could also tweak > your ROM_SIZE to make it match. > I've got the VGA extracted -- I'll burn it tonight and see what happens. Assumedly: dd if=vga.bios.bin of=vga.bios.bin.padded bs=65536 count=1 conv=sync > -- > Richard A. Smith > > -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
