> the only problem is I've watched the IPL code on arium, step by step, and
> it works. This code works. I've watched the ss and es get loaded
> correctly.
Ron its not the problem, I've tested it and 8e or 8c diss-assembles to the
same
code on nasm, and still no sign of life. I'm curious about the arium, does
it
plug into the pci bus and watch/store code go buy, or is it able to track
the
registers themselves??
> You don't have a spare card do you?
you mean motherboard yes, I have tried changing them over, now denis
has linuxbios up and running on the same type hardware as I have, I will
try doing some more organised fault finding, the normal bios will take me
years of intensive diss-assembly to figure out, nowhere as simple as
linuxbios.
> Like I say, these cards don't like to be handled. I'm concerned that your
> card is now a brick.
the motherboard is in a case and is well protected from problems, the only
thing I worry about is the DoC and flash chips but they seem to be holding
up.
for a brick it seems to work suprising well under normal bios, I can program
the DoC with it and it boots up with the POST code that I have put in it OK,
its booting with 2.4.0 kernel with framebuffer, I can't fault it, excect
that it
won't boot from linuxbios because memory's just not there, if after stack
initialisation I push a value onto the stack and pop it off and out to port
80
its wrong, its just reading an open bus.
its all in the first 512 bytes of code of linux bios and the first 512Kbytes
of normal bios that the answer lies, could be a new motherboard on its
way soon.
Any way it will work out eventually.
Regards
Brian
