[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all > Following your instructions regarding requesting assistance with the > compatability of LinuxBIOS with different mainboards here are the > specifications. > I have an AMD Athlon XP2400+ in a Foxconn 741M01C-GX-6L as a desktop machine > > This is the output of 'lspci -vvv' > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 741/741GX/M741 Host > (rev 0 3) > Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Unknown device 0c4d > Foxconn BIOS? Is it actually an Award or Phoenix BIOS? > The problem with this mainboard is that it doesn't seem to like Linux boot > systems. I have the Gentoo 2006.0 LiveCD Installer, and have installed this > onto > hda, but the system will not boot giving a non system disk error message. I've > also contacted EdLUG about this as well. > I was hoping that if LinuxBIOS is compatible, I can flash it to the memory and > it will be able to boot the system. > The SIS 735 was the latest SIS supported. That was 4 yrs ago and in V1.
The 741 would be an interesting LinuxBIOS port since this device supports the Geode NX. -Bari -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
