roger wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 06:37 +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: >> The static device tree of the Tyan S1846 was, um... totally bogus. >> >> I'm using the ide0_enble/ide1_enable variables now to enable IDE. >> Hm, what happens if those variables are not set at all in a Confib.lb >> file of some mainboard? Do they default to zero? >> > > I've applied both, this patch, and the 82371 patch. > > 1) I get a random error when in filo/grub menu.lst after pressing "p" > for password to manually edit my options while in grub. > A quick typed, not exact copy of the error --> "Attempt to free > non-allocated memory: 00000006".
Would that be the 640k-768k memory range? I honestly have no clue, but it seems to make sense... > 2) /dev/sda2 seems to be easily recognized now. (I'm guessing this is > the device tree fix?) Are you complaining? ;) Yeah, this is probably due to the device tree fixes. If I were you though, I'd grab a spare IDE drive and try to get that working first, before trying with add-on cards. > 3) I now get a long hang at "Loading kernel". I then get a very very, > if not sometimes permanent hang after "Jumping to Entry Point" is > printed to tty. Sometimes the kernel loads at this point, sometimes it > never seems to. (82371 patch?) I'm getting the same thing on the i810 (but it's progress for me!). I figured it was just because filo was only doing byte reads, or is filo not in charge any more at this point? Anyways, need to dig up Peter's patch... -Corey -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
