giving the user a boot option

Does anyone think it is possible the offer the user a choice of commandline parameters. I would like to use the serial console, or something else convienient, to allow the user to choose commandline1 or commandline2. One of them mounts root over nfs, the other from the hard drive. I guess

Re: warm reboot Geode

Ron, I found that writing a 1 to bit 0 of pci config space F0 index 0x44 causes the xbus to reset. BTW thanks Andrew! John Ronald G. Minnich wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, John Allen wrote: When I use the reboot command on my Dorado demo board from National (with their BIOS

warm reboot Geode

When I use the reboot command on my Dorado demo board from National (with their BIOS), It will successfully warm boot the machine. When I use my LinuxBIOS image on the Dorado or my Geode machine, the machine just stalls at the point where the reset should occur. It seems to me that Linux is

rom image dates

I noticed that the romimage files created by the linuxBIOS build do not have a date in the last few bytes of the image. I believe that most rom images use this area to identify the date the rom was compiled. Is there a tool in the LinuxBIOS arsenal that can add the date to the correct file,

Re: rom image dates

$$size)` ; \ echo $$size ; \ dd if=linuxbios.strip of=linuxbios.rom bs=1 seek=`expr $(ROM_IMAGE_SIZE) - $$size` ./rom_add_date $(ROM_IMAGE_SIZE) Do with it what you want. Its all yours. John Ronald G. Minnich wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, John Allen wrote: I noticed that the romimage

Re: DMA on the SC2200 Geode

I don't think we should wait until the kernel loads. For instance, I sometimes load the kernel from the hard drive with BOOT_IDE. The drive and controller should be in dma mode beofre this. Mainboard setup sounds good.. John Ronald G. Minnich wrote: On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Bari Ari wrote:

Re: Help NS Geode experts

Adam, I am also working on a board that integrates the Geode SC2200/SC1200 chip. I am not sure if I can answer your questiuon, but I am interrested in how you programed your flash. I was planning on trying the /dev/bios utility before I attemted to do it on my own. Have you look at this

DMA on the SC2200 Geode

I just noticed that the harddrive on my Geode sc2200 system is running in pio mode. What do I need to do to turn on dma support for this chip? John ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Geode sc2200 vga

I have successfully built LinuxBIOS to load a kernel from my IDE drive and boot using a serial console. Now I would like to test the VGA funtionality of my board. Has anyone had any experience getting the VGA to turn on and work within LinuxBIOS and/or Linux? John

ide kernel loading

I found a parameter, BOOT_IDE, which I have enabled instead of USE_GENERIC_ROM. It appears that when I use this parameter, linuxbios tries to load the kernel from my hard ide hard drive. Is this what the parameter is meant to do? If this is the case, then I should be able to place the

kernel image size

I need to get the kernel that I am building for my Geode sc1200 (including the linuxbios code) small enough to fit on a 256K eeprom. Is this possible? My first attempt resulted in vmlinux of 626K. After compiling linuxBIOS it gave my a rominage of 448K. Am I missing something? I tried

Geode sc1200

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