Maciej Grela wrote: > Hi > > I want to run LinuxBIOS on an NCR-7456 POS PC. It`s mainboard is said > to be "Tiger MVP" (http://developer.novell.com/yes/75294.htm) and it > doesn`t seem to be on the SupportedMainboards list. However it`s > equipped with a VT8601A northbridge and VT82C686 southbridge. It also > has a 39VF040 flash chip soldered onboard. The northbridge is said to > be supported by LinuxBIOS but the VT82C686 has a question mark in the > SupportedChipsets table (for linuxbios v1) and isn`t mentioned at all > on the list of devices supported by LinuxBIOS v2. If so, what are the > odds of successfully running LinuxBIOS on this machine?
vt8601 support is already present in linuxbios, and I'm currently working on vt82c686 (which should work, but I haven't had a chance to test it yet). There are two variants of the 82c686, the a and the b. Can you either check the manual to find out which one of these it is, or reply with "lspci -n"? Then, beyond that, it's the code for the actual motherboard, which usually isn't too hard. The BIOS flash > is soldered to the mainboard so it won`t be easy to reflash when > something goes wrong. Find an electronics shop that can do sodiering work, and get them to install a socket on one of the motherboards, and then get a couple extra bios chips (mouser.com I've had very good luck with). There's a chance that your flash could work perfectly the first time, but if it doesn't, you're out a motherboard, there is no reflash. Thanks. -Corey -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
