Re: Booting Linux using netboot and HD

2005-06-15 Thread Nathanael Noblet
On Apr 21, 2005, at 6:46 PM, beneo wrote: I used a command like this to make the elf image.   mkelfImage --command-line=root=/dev/hda2 rw console=ttyS0,115200n8  \ --kernel=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8smp --ramdisk=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8smp.img \ --output=/root/elf/linuxImage   I think my root

Re: Booting Linux using netboot and HD

2005-06-15 Thread Nathanael Noblet
On Apr 22, 2005, at 11:05 AM, beneo wrote: Below is the dump from Console, starting from LinuxBIOS to Kenel Panic, If you see anything strange, please let me know. It seems good to me. Here is where my lack of knowledge tells me to stick with what I know. I don't know how the initrd is

Re: Booting Linux using netboot and HD

2005-06-15 Thread Nathanael Noblet
On Apr 22, 2005, at 9:53 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 09:23:40AM -0700, Nathanael Noblet wrote: I would suggest skipping the netboot portion and use FILO. It will load a kernel directly from the filesystem, if you are planning on using that as that root system, no point

Re: EPIA flash questions

2004-08-26 Thread Nathanael Noblet
On Aug 26, 2004, at 2:42 PM, Joshua Wise wrote: Hi folks, Well, I finally got myself a Linuxbios supported board (an EPIA ME-6000). Later tonight I'm going to order a flash from Mouser to swap out, but before I do, I have a few questions: On board is a PLCC form factor 39SF020A. Mouser also

Re: Doc translation

2004-06-14 Thread Nathanael Noblet
On Monday, June 14, 2004, at 04:54 AM, Mathieu Deschamps wrote: Hello LinuxBiosers, I have finish my reporting activities, i'am submiting my work. It is has been done during my training period of 2 months or so. This was a short time and maybe I'am not experimenced enough to give something to more

Re: Native LinuxBios Support

2004-05-28 Thread Nathanael Noblet
On Friday, May 28, 2004, at 08:52 AM, Mathieu Deschamps wrote: For the time being, i'am at writing doc and well this is a needed step, first it helps me understand in the whole, second i've been ordered to do so. I would gladly help ... what I could is bringing my doc to you and LinuxBios people.

Re: Epia-MII VGA not working and PCMCIA rebooting

2004-05-17 Thread Nathanael Noblet
On Sunday, May 16, 2004, at 07:08 PM, ron minnich wrote: On Sun, 16 May 2004, Ignacio Verona wrote: biosint: # 0xb8, eax 0x707 ebx 0x0 ecx 0x700 edx 0x0 biosint: ebp 0x10fca esp 0xfc0 edi 0xb880 esi 0x1010a biosint: ip 0x188 cs 0xc000 flags 0x246 biosint: Unsupport int #0xb8 b8? Anybody know what

Re: SIS chipset

2004-03-17 Thread Nathanael Noblet
On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 12:00 PM, Frank wrote: Forgive me for my ignorance but now I am really confused. What is the difference between Freebios, Freebios2 and LinuxBios. I thought they were one in the same.:-( freebios was started before linuxbios. LinuxBIOS took over freebios, but

Re: SIS chipset

2004-03-17 Thread Nathanael Noblet
On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 02:26 PM, Frank wrote: I must be missing something here but in freebios v1 there is plenty of supprt for the SIS chip sets. I downloaded freebios2 (thanks you everyone for the information) but I don't see any support for the SIS chips. I thought freebios2 was a

Re: changing the default paylolad

2004-03-17 Thread Nathanael Noblet
for version 2 look in the build/targets directory. I can't remember the exact file. but grep for payload On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 07:06 PM, Frank wrote: Sorry for what may appear to be a stupid question but the answer isn't really obvious since various config files are scattered all

Re: question re: epox 8rda+

2004-01-28 Thread Nathanael Noblet
On Wednesday, January 28, 2004, at 09:52 AM, Matthew Lucas wrote: Dear LinuxBios group, I've been lurking on the list for about two weeks. After checking the product listings on the website, I have not found a listing for the mother board I use. Has anyone successfully installed a linux bios on

Fwd: New 1U Chassis for 2 EPIA

2003-10-14 Thread Nathanael Noblet
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forgetful...

2003-10-13 Thread Nathanael Noblet
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Re: V2 Epia

2003-10-08 Thread Nathanael Noblet
mind ;-) Please look at: freebios2/targets/arima/hdama/Config.kernelimage.lb This is a fallback-only image (no normal image) with a kernel as payload. This should be a model of how to build a via epia with only one bios image. thanks -- Nathanael Noblet Gnat Solutions 4604 Monterey Ave NW

Re: FILO 0.3

2003-10-07 Thread Nathanael Noblet
and not worry about it, as well as not having to type in the kernel path and all that everytime...? -- Nathanael Noblet Gnat Solutions 4604 Monterey Ave NW Calgary, AB T3B 5K4 T/F 403.288.5360 C 403.809.5368 http://www.gnat.ca/ ___ Linuxbios mailing

Re: The Great Cheap EPIA contest.

2003-10-02 Thread Nathanael Noblet
the main stuff (northbridge / southbridge ) etc are the same... -- Nathanael Noblet Gnat Solutions 4604 Monterey Ave NW Calgary, AB T3B 5K4 T/F 403.288.5360 C 403.809.5368 http://www.gnat.ca/ ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

unsupported int on Epia800

2003-09-22 Thread Nathanael Noblet
? -- Nathanael Noblet Gnat Solutions 4604 Monterey Ave NW Calgary, AB T3B 5K4 T/F 403.288.5360 C 403.809.5368 http://www.gnat.ca/ ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: epia800 direct vga working

2003-09-21 Thread Nathanael Noblet
On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 11:49 AM, Steve Gehlbach wrote: SONE Takeshi wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 11:25:58PM -0700, Steve Gehlbach wrote: Nathanael Noblet wrote: I don't need a framebuffer on boot, but once loaded would I be able to insmod the epiafb module and get that working

Re: epia800 direct vga working

2003-09-21 Thread Nathanael Noblet
On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 12:59 PM, SONE Takeshi wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:25:01PM -0600, Nathanael Noblet wrote: I have yet to get the epiafb working or even try the tridentfb with a linuxbios boot. The epia complains of unresolved dependancies which look like missing symbols

Re: epia800 direct vga working

2003-09-21 Thread Nathanael Noblet
On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 01:28 PM, SONE Takeshi wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:09:06PM -0600, Nathanael Noblet wrote: At the moment though, I'm having difficulty getting filo to boot anything but the original kernel. Here is what I have done. Perhaps you have insight into the problem

Re: epia800 direct vga working

2003-09-21 Thread Nathanael Noblet
On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 01:28 PM, SONE Takeshi wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:09:06PM -0600, Nathanael Noblet wrote: At the moment though, I'm having difficulty getting filo to boot anything but the original kernel. Here is what I have done. Perhaps you have insight into the problem

Re: epia800 direct vga working

2003-09-20 Thread Nathanael Noblet
programmer can reach. +addaction linuxbios.rom /bin/cp -f linuxbios.rom $(HOME)/cti/software/bios/exp/linuxbios_epia.bin -- Nathanael Noblet Gnat Solutions 4604 Monterey Ave NW Calgary, AB T3B 5K4 T/F 403.288.5360 C 403.809.5368 http://www.gnat.ca

Re: epia800 direct vga working

2003-09-19 Thread Nathanael Noblet
. +addaction linuxbios.rom /bin/cp -f linuxbios.rom $(HOME)/cti/software/bios/exp/linuxbios_epia.bin -- Nathanael Noblet Gnat Solutions 4604 Monterey Ave NW Calgary, AB T3B 5K4 T/F 403.288.5360 C 403.809.5368 http://www.gnat.ca/ ___ Linuxbios mailing list

EPIA Information...

2003-09-18 Thread Nathanael Noblet
-500 and such would also work, but well can't guarantee it. Now on to flashing linuxBIOS to these chips... How exciting... I wonder though if it is prudent to do this at 1am...;) oh well. -- Nathanael Noblet Gnat Solutions 4604 Monterey Ave NW Calgary, AB T3B 5K4 T/F 403.288.5360 C 403.809.5368

EPIA Up

2003-09-18 Thread Nathanael Noblet
the amount of work to get these things working like this. Either way it works and I'm liking it. the Filo bootloader is great, simplifies the load process significantly. I stayed up WAY too late playing with this thing. It felt almost like Christmas... So anyway thanks. -- Nathanael Noblet Gnat Solutions

Re: Acquiring Flash Parts

2003-09-09 Thread Nathanael Noblet
think of? Is there anyone else that would want these parts that I could resell them at cost I'm in Canada, so the exchange is in your favor... -- Nathanael Noblet Gnat Solutions 4604 Monterey Ave NW Calgary, AB T3B 5K4 T/F 403.288.5360 C 403.809.5368 http://www.gnat.ca

Acquiring Flash Parts

2003-09-08 Thread Nathanael Noblet
problems? Thanks, -- Nathanael Noblet Gnat Solutions 4604 Monterey Ave NW Calgary, AB T3B 5K4 T/F 403.288.5360 C 403.809.5368 http://www.gnat.ca/ ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

compatible flash chips

2003-08-22 Thread Nathanael Noblet
Winbond w29c020cp90b. How do I know if they are compatible? I'd rather not flash this and it not work, and then not be able to do anything with it... -- Nathanael Noblet Gnat Solutions 4604 Monterey Ave NW Calgary, AB T3B 5K4 T/F 403.288.5360 C 403.809.5368 http://www.gnat.ca

Epia M status

2003-08-18 Thread Nathanael Noblet
would be appreciated. -- Nathanael Noblet Gnat Solutions 4604 Monterey Ave NW Calgary, AB T3B 5K4 T/F 403.288.5360 C 403.809.5368 http://www.gnat.ca/ ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Suggestions

2003-02-27 Thread Nathanael Noblet
be great. -- Nathanael Noblet Gnat Solutions 4604 Monterey Ave NW Calgary, AB T3B 5K4 T/F 403.288.5360 C 403.809.5368 http://www.gnat.ca/ ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

VIA EPIA questions

2003-01-10 Thread Nathanael Noblet
of doing). Though we need a flash root directory, I guess I can have a CF in an IDE connector but was hoping that with this board it was possible to use a DoC type solution. Is it? -- Nathanael Noblet Gnat Solutions 4604 Monterey Ave NW Calgary, AB T3B 5K4 T/F 403.288.5360 C 403.809.5368 http

Re: VGA and LinuxBios

2002-12-11 Thread Nathanael Noblet
to use for my project. So if you can send me the code to enable the VGA stuff that would be great. I do have the datasheet for the board and its video controller so I may be able to find the special chip specific stuff from looking at your code. Thanks in advance, -- Nathanael Noblet Gnat Solutions

Fast starts...

2002-12-09 Thread Nathanael Noblet
to? something like XIP type CF or what? -- Nathanael Noblet Gnat Solutions 4604 Monterey Ave NW Calgary, AB T3B 5K4 T/F 403.288.5360 C 403.809.5368 http://www.gnat.ca/ ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman

Re: Question regarding instructions...

2002-12-03 Thread Nathanael Noblet
(but good for embedded development). :) -- Nathanael Noblet Gnat Solutions 4604 Monterey Ave NW Calgary, AB T3B 5K4 T/F 403.288.5360 C 403.809.5368 http://www.gnat.ca/ ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: file system error (fwd)

2002-11-29 Thread Nathanael Noblet
On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 11:19 AM, Justin Cormack wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 17:31, Nathanael Noblet wrote: On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 10:03 AM, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: In this time, I tried to attach SCSI IEEE1394 SBP-2 devices. case1. Adaptec 2930 SCSI adapter + 8GB

Re: Question regarding instructions...

2002-11-28 Thread Nathanael Noblet
Noblet Gnat Solutions 4604 Monterey Ave NW Calgary, AB T3B 5K4 T/F 403.288.5360 C 403.809.5368 http://www.gnat.ca/ -- Nathanael Noblet Gnat Solutions 4604 Monterey Ave NW Calgary, AB T3B 5K4 T/F 403.288.5360 C 403.809.5368 http://www.gnat.ca

Re: Question regarding instructions...

2002-11-28 Thread Nathanael Noblet
it is the DiscOnChip 2000. -- Nathanael Noblet Gnat Solutions 4604 Monterey Ave NW Calgary, AB T3B 5K4 T/F 403.288.5360 C 403.809.5368 http://www.gnat.ca/ -- Nathanael Noblet Gnat Solutions 4604 Monterey Ave NW Calgary, AB T3B 5K4 T/F 403.288.5360 C 403.809.5368 http://www.gnat.ca

Sis 530

2002-09-23 Thread Nathanael Noblet
Hello, I've seen a lot of support about the Sis 630 chipset. I'm wondering how much support exists for 530 based boards? Is there documentation on how one would proceed to support a particular chipset? -- Nathanael Noblet Gnat Solutions 4604 Monterey Ave NW Calgary, AB T3B 5K4 P: (403