Re: Getting Started with freebios2!

2004-05-27 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Please CC the list on questions like this. Jay Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Eric, Perhaps you can help me, seeing that you wrote elfboot. This is the output that I get when I use a .zelf image: Welcome to elfboot, the open sourced starter. January 2002, Eric Biederman.

RE: Getting Started with freebios2!

2004-05-27 Thread Jay Miller
generates the output I sent you. -J -Original Message- From: Eric W. Biederman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric W. Biederman Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 10:25 AM To: Jay Miller Cc: LinuxBIOS Subject: Re: Getting Started with freebios2! Please CC the list on questions like

Re: Getting Started with freebios2!

2004-05-27 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Jay Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's why I thought that elfboot couldn't read .zelf, because the image sizes are incorrect.Actual image size for the tg3--filo.zelf image is 43,153 bytes, which is smaller than the file.elf image 43,472 bytes. But when I make a linuxbios.rom with the

: Getting Started with freebios2!

2004-05-27 Thread YhLu
Did you use export LANG=en_US before make bin/tg3--filo.zelf? Or I could send one tg3_filo.zelf to you? Regards YH -- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : 2004527 11:48 : Jay Miller : Eric W. Biederman; LinuxBIOS : Re: Getting Started with freebios2! Jay Miller [EMAIL

RE: Getting Started with freebios2!

2004-05-27 Thread Jay Miller
: Thursday, May 27, 2004 3:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jay Miller Cc: LinuxBIOS Subject: : Getting Started with freebios2! Did you use export LANG=en_US before make bin/tg3--filo.zelf? Or I could send one tg3_filo.zelf to you? Regards YH -- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

: Getting Started with freebios2!

2004-05-27 Thread YhLu
] : LinuxBIOS : RE: Getting Started with freebios2! I think that I've been lucky using a stock RH9 distro. I'm going to make sure I've got the latest binutils, etc... and retry. By the way, what is the status on USB support? I know you were getting close. Thanks, J -Original Message

: : Getting Started with freebios2!

2004-05-27 Thread YhLu
Usb to serial ??? YH -- : ron minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : 2004527 14:14 : YhLu : Jay Miller; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; LinuxBIOS : Re: : Getting Started with freebios2! now we need usb output. The HP node we got has no serial port! ouch! ron

Re: : Getting Started with freebios2!

2004-05-27 Thread ron minnich
now we need usb output. The HP node we got has no serial port! ouch! ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: : : Getting Started with freebios2!

2004-05-27 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, 27 May 2004, YhLu wrote: Usb to serial ??? yes, it's now needed :-( ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: ????: Getting Started with freebios2!

2004-05-27 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040527 23:14]: now we need usb output. The HP node we got has no serial port! No JTAG either? I'd assume serial-via-usb console needs a lot more hardware initialized than a simple serial port before one can see anything..

: : : Getting Started with freebios2!

2004-05-27 Thread YhLu
minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : 2004527 14:23 : YhLu : Jay Miller; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; LinuxBIOS : Re: : : Getting Started with freebios2! On Thu, 27 May 2004, YhLu wrote: Usb to serial ??? yes, it's now needed :-( ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list

Re: : Getting Started with freebios2!

2004-05-27 Thread Li-Ta Lo
On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 15:14, ron minnich wrote: now we need usb output. The HP node we got has no serial port! ouch! I thought we don;t care about those HP nodes due to it management processor. Ollie ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL

Re: : : : Getting Started with freebios2!

2004-05-27 Thread Steven James
. What the USB type, OHCI or UCHI or EHCI?? I wonder if some source code or documents that define No 3 above? Regards YH -- : ron minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : 2004527 14:23 : YhLu : Jay Miller; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; LinuxBIOS : Re: : : Getting Started with freebios2

Re: : : : Getting Started with freebios2!

2004-05-27 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Steven James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For the serial, UHCI and OHCI will be good. EHCI can likely be ignored for the BIOS since fast devices are required to fall back and EHCI always has one of UHCI or OHCI to handle low speed USB. Actually not. At least not for serial before the memory is

Getting Started with freebios2!

2004-05-18 Thread Jay Miller
Disclaimer: I too am a N00B and these are my observations thus far. They may not be 100% correct, but these things have worked for me. I hope that they'll help other N00Bz get started. WHAT IS FREEBIOS2? Well I stumbled upon freebios2 when I couldn't find support in the freebios tree for my

Re: Getting Started with freebios2!

2004-05-18 Thread Hendricks David W.
Excellent work! This should prove helpful to those new to the project get started. I'd like to elaborate on a few points you have made. On Tue, 18 May 2004, Jay Miller wrote: HOW DO I FLASH A ROM? There is also a flash-n-burn utility in the source tree. Perhaps someone on the list can add

Re: Getting Started with freebios2!

2004-05-18 Thread backblue
I like to develop, linuxbios to my motherboards, but none of them are suported, i will show you some lspci of them: #1: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5597 [SiS5582] (rev 02) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev 01) 00:01.1 IDE interface:

RE: Getting started

2003-09-16 Thread Craig C. Forney
But there is a difference in the resulting romcc depending on whether you compile it for AMD64 or IA32. I tracked it down to lines 211 and 212: /* Long on the destination platform */ typedef unsigned long ulong_t; typedef long long_t; The IA32 version of the size_of()

Re: Getting started

2003-09-15 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Craig C. Forney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! I'm a newbie with linuxbios (and linux for that matter). We are in the process of creating a stripped-down (but extremely dense) dual Opteron server. It is basically a pair of Opterons and an 8111 that has a 10/100 NIC, a pair of USB ports,

Re: Getting started

2003-09-15 Thread Eric W. Biederman
ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Craig C. Forney wrote: It successfully made romcc, but when it tried to run it to make either the failover or normal rom, it gets the following error: reset_test.c:13,111: 0x1e43570 copy Internal compiler error: bad type

Re: Getting started

2003-09-15 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030915 13:10]: Ron how so? If romcc compiles it should work. I don't have any excuse for romcc to behave different depending on what compiler compiles it. But there is a difference in the resulting romcc depending on whether you compile it for AMD64 or

Re: Getting started

2003-09-15 Thread ron minnich
On 15 Sep 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote: romcc is sensitive to the version of linux you are running at present. Ron how so? If romcc compiles it should work. I don't have any excuse for romcc to behave different depending on what compiler compiles it. it makes no sense to me either, as

Re: Getting started

2003-09-15 Thread Eric W. Biederman
ron minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 15 Sep 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote: romcc is sensitive to the version of linux you are running at present. Ron how so? If romcc compiles it should work. I don't have any excuse for romcc to behave different depending on what compiler

Re: Getting started

2003-09-15 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030915 13:10]: Ron how so? If romcc compiles it should work. I don't have any excuse for romcc to behave different depending on what compiler compiles it. But there is a difference in the resulting romcc

Re: Getting started

2003-09-15 Thread ron minnich
On 15 Sep 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Either I am not executing this, in my configuration file. Or it works fine for me with python2.1 python2.2 and python2.3 I'll look at version, I just hit this and then had to go to work. ron ___ Linuxbios

Getting started

2003-09-13 Thread Craig C. Forney
Hi! I'm a newbie with linuxbios (and linux for that matter). We are in the process of creating a stripped-down (but extremely dense) dual Opteron server. It is basically a pair of Opterons and an 8111 that has a 10/100 NIC, a pair of USB ports, and an IDE interface, along with 4GB of RAM.

Re: Getting started

2003-09-13 Thread ron minnich
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Craig C. Forney wrote: It successfully made romcc, but when it tried to run it to make either the failover or normal rom, it gets the following error: reset_test.c:13,111: 0x1e43570 copy Internal compiler error: bad type passed to copy romcc is sensitive to the

getting started

2002-10-08 Thread Matt Walsh
All, I would like to get my feet wet and build a cheap 3 node cluster to play with linux bios, beowulf, etc. Soo, if you were starting from scratch and wanted the motherboard that... - is cheap - has good linux bios documentation - has a good success rate ...which would you choose? Thanks

Re: getting started

2002-10-08 Thread Ronald G Minnich
I strongly recommend you just buy one pre-installed with linuxbios to start. See cwlinux.com ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

Re: Trouble getting started.....

2002-09-08 Thread ollie lho
On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 18:58, Antony Stone wrote: Hi. Can somebody tell me what I'm missing here please ? I've just started with LinuxBios after seeing it at the LBW workshop ten days ago, and I can't seem to get even to stage 1 LBW, is it the one that with mountain climbing and

Re: Trouble getting started.....

2002-09-07 Thread Ronald G Minnich
you are very close. The DoC is very frustrating and has caused trouble for MTD (just ask David Woodhouse :-) You need to NOT use the single driver mode of DoC. So my config looks like this for the kernel # # Self-contained MTD device drivers # # CONFIG_MTD_PMC551 is not set # CONFIG_MTD_SLRAM