On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:38:18PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > The checksum was wrong, so none of the values were used.
Ah, that makes sense. > It's not you doing this wrong. I think linuxbios should in fact reset > the extended linuxbios range in cmos to the values it has hardcoded as > defaults from the cmos options file. Right. That would be cool. > > I can't really seem to find any documentation about all the settings that > > are > > possible with lxbios; most seem straightforward enough, but is there > > something out there that describes each field? > > No. The wild thing is these settings may be different in each mainboard > and many of them are there because of copy & paste. I see! Hmmm, it would be a nice project to do some code analysis to find out which port uses which settings, and document that. > > boot_first = HDD > > boot_second = Network > > boot_third = Floppy > > boot_index = 0xe > > boot_countdown = 0xfa > > I think these are used by some payload. Baremetal toolkit? Etherboot? But not FILO, I take it? I've started a page on lxbios on the LB wiki to document this: http://linuxbios.org/Lxbios Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
