Alrighty, chucked your solution in there (from Ron's); option USE_ELF_BOOT=1 payload ../rtl8139.ebi
mine is now; # # Config file for; # # Chipset: Acer M1541 and Acer M1543C (Aladdin 5) # Board: Gigabyte GA-5AX # Processor: AMD K6-II/300 # Flash: DoC Millennium (as root) # # This will make a target directory of ./ga-5ax target ga-5ax # ASUS CUA main board mainboard asus/cua # use DOC MIL option USE_DOC_MIL docipl mainboard/asus/cua/ipl.S # Enable Serial Console for debugging option SERIAL_CONSOLE=1 # Enable IRQ Routing table stuff option HAVE_PIRQ_TABLE=1 # Enable MicroCode update and L2 Cache init for PII and PIII option CONFIGURE_L2_CACHE # Path to your kernel (vmlinux) # linux /home/archive # Kernel command line parameters commandline root=/dev/hda5 console=ttyS0,9600 single # ELF Boot Stuffs option USE_ELF_BOOT=1 payload /home/archive/lb-kernel So if I compile it all up, then I get; [root@0n3 ga-5ax]# ls -alsort | tail -20l 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 1220 Feb 21 11:43 keyboard.o 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 1025 Feb 21 11:43 irq_tables.o 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 5692 Feb 21 11:43 cpuid.o 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 2328 Feb 21 11:43 mtrr.o 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 5616 Feb 21 11:43 microcode.o 32 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 30464 Feb 21 11:43 linuxbios.strip 56 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 49272 Feb 21 11:43 linuxbios.o 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 7595 Feb 21 11:43 linuxbios.map 104 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 100866 Feb 21 11:43 linuxbios.a 56 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 325686 Feb 21 11:43 linuxbios 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 184 Feb 21 11:43 ldscript.ld 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 295 Feb 21 11:43 ldoptions 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 5800 Feb 21 11:43 l2_cache.o 964 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 983040 Feb 21 11:43 romimage 900 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 917504 Feb 21 11:43 payload.block 36 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 65536 Feb 21 11:43 linuxbios.rom 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 1816 Feb 21 11:43 ipl.o 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 512 Feb 21 11:43 docipl 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4096 Feb 21 11:43 . 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root 4096 Feb 21 11:44 .. [root@0n3 ga-5ax]# ... of which I'm not sure what I want. The howto say; -rw------- 1 rminnich CIC-ACL 512 Dec 20 08:41 docipl -rwx------ 1 rminnich CIC-ACL 33494 Dec 20 08:41 linuxbios.strip* -rwx------ 1 rminnich CIC-ACL 756069 Dec 20 08:41 vmlinux.bin.gz* So I;m guessing I want; docipl linuxbios.strip payload.block (?) Ok ... let me search the archives here, because I'm also not sure about the memtester; [root@0n3 freebios]# find . -name *mem* ./src/arch/i386/lib/set_memory_size_noop.inc ./src/lib/memcmp.c ./src/lib/memcpy.c ./src/lib/memset.c ./src/northbridge/amd/amd76x/set_memory_size.inc [root@0n3 freebios]# > roughly: > USE_ELF_BOOT=1 > payload=blah.elf > > For more look in the mailling list archives. If you can't find > it there I'll answer some more questions...