First and foremost. The MII and the M are the same. Use the epia-m for
your base compile. Last time I checked the M/MII was not running.
About a year back the code runs just fine. If this is a must have, just
grab one of the old tree's. Stay away from www.esupport.com.
Via's fast boot can boot from the CF. You may want to look, into that.
Boot time. How fast can you get the system booted. So from power until
full GUI?
-Adam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, all! Before messing with my Via MII BIOS, I google'd my heart out and
did not find any real specific info. I found many other peeps in the same boat
as I am; I need CF boot for this VERY cool MB!
In fact, I have committed to already buying qty 130 of them and will buy
another qty 130 on my way to a total nearing 900 if I'm lucky. I won't bore you
with the project details, But I will say that they are vehicle mounted PC's
running Linux (of course). That's all well and good, but we are spending a fair
amount on IDE-CF adapters and cables (times qty) AND we have to take the PC
apart to put on a new boot image.
So, part of the openbios docs indicate that "targets/via/epia-mii" exists for
this board. It does not. I am trying to learn as quickly as possible about what I can do
with openbios. I am willing to pay for some excelerated work/help in order to help my own
cause. The payment could be money to a person or group or in hardware (to make sure it
all works of course). I don't know how much is fair. I do know that
http://www.esupport.com/ bios guys might be able to do it. That would suck, however... 1.
enigineering cost fo $1000+++, 2. not opensource, 3. still have per bios cost nearing
IDE-CF adapter cost...
So, anyone interested?
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