On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> Don't bother, the floppy is bootable.
I take it then that the BIOS update floppy is bootable. The SUP (System
Update Package) that has all the updates for all the components certainly
isn't.
> Set the "recovery boot" jumper on the motherboard, put the floppy in, and
> it will load and reflash the original bios.
Good, this makes me feel more comfortable.
> > Sounds good. I still don't quite know how the Makefile ends up generating
> > all the *PI? files, nor how to get the DOS program to put them into
> > FLASH, but I'm sure I'll work it out.
>
> make phlash.
>
> Also, I STRONGLY recommend you copy the RON_L440GX_SCSI directory
> somewhere OUTSIDE the linuxbios tree. Then fix the TOP variable in the
> makefile and voila, you can cvs update without fouling up your build
> directory.
So you are saying something like this:
1. md l440gx, copy RON_L44GX_SCSI to this directory
2. unpack linux-2.4.0-test6 in a directory level with l440gx called
linux-2.4.0-test11.l440gx.scsi
3. make
4. make phlash
5. cvs -pserver <etc> update, as required.
> Right now I'm having SCSI troubles. I can't state this will work for
> scsi. Sorry. I really need someone with scsi expertise to tell me what's
> going wrong.
What sort of troubles? In any case I presume that it should be easy to
tell whether Linuxbios is working or not - it either boots the OS or it
doesn't.
> Are you using a VA node? I keep wondering if it's the VA SCA hardware.
Nope. Noname machine put together by an Intel-certified somethingorother
company.
> > I notice the doc directory in the cvs tree is empty. How about a more
> > complete version of this message finds its way there? I'll keep note of
> > what I have to do from now on.
>
> I'll try to do that, many thanks.
By the end of this exercise I might have the basis of an L440GX
howto. Unless SCSI totally fails, of course.
--
Dan Shearer
Open Source Manager
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