LinuxBIOS + FreeBSD = true?

2002-10-08 Thread Christer Weinigel
Hi, a quick question, is LinuxBIOS able to boot any of the BSD-flavours? I'm especially interested in FreeBSD. /Christer -- Just how much can I get away with and still go to heaven? Freelance consultant specializing in device driver programming for Linux Christer Weinigel [EMAIL

Ram problem

2002-10-08 Thread steven james
Greetings, I'm trying to get ram working on an e7500 MCH. It seems to be actually initting, but when I run ramtest it, I consistantly see a single bit toggled when reading back such as: 00024ab4:00024a94 00024abc:00024a9c

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: Walmart PC from MicroTel

2002-10-08 Thread Steve M. Gehlbach
Was the question ever solved as to what chipset is used in the $199 model from walmart.com? It is a Giga-byte mobo, the GA-6VEML: http://tw.giga-byte.com/products/products.htm. They list it as the VIA VT8602 (PLE133T) and VIA VT82C686B chipsets. -Steve

Re: [ARMboot-users] ARMboot vs BLOB

2002-10-08 Thread Bari Ari
Wolfgang Denk wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: We're looking at trying to merge ARMboot or BLOB into the LinuxBIOS tree to give LinuxBIOS http://www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/ a common code base to boot ARM. You may consider PPCBoot (or Das U-Boot = the Universal Booter

LinuxBIOS in 512KB flash

2002-10-08 Thread Hieu T. Tran
We're working to port LinuxBIOS to a via 133 platform with a 512KB boot flash. We believe that the flash is wired such that on reset, 0x0 is mapped to 0x7FFF0 on the flash, which is slightly below 512KB on the flash. We have been trying various config file settings (ROMTOP, ROMSIZE,

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: LinuxBIOS + FreeBSD = true?

2002-10-08 Thread Eric W Biederman
Christer Weinigel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, a quick question, is LinuxBIOS able to boot any of the BSD-flavours? I'm especially interested in FreeBSD. LinuxBIOS will load etherboot. etherboot has support for FreeBSD. But I believe the FreeBSD kernel uses vm86 mode and makes x86 BIOS

Re: Ram problem

2002-10-08 Thread Eric W Biederman
steven james [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings, I'm trying to get ram working on an e7500 MCH. It seems to be actually initting, but when I run ramtest it, I consistantly see a single bit toggled when reading back such as: Other times, I see that the second read (in order to display

Re: LinuxBIOS + FreeBSD = true?

2002-10-08 Thread Ronald G Minnich
On 8 Oct 2002, Eric W Biederman wrote: But I believe the FreeBSD kernel uses vm86 mode and makes x86 BIOS calls which LinuxBIOS does not implement. It should just be a matter of modifying the BSDs to not make x86 BIOS calls and instead read the LinuxBIOS table. yup. That's the state of

RE: LinuxBIOS in 512KB flash

2002-10-08 Thread Hieu T. Tran
Ron and Eric, Thank you for the response. The problem that we're having is that the generated romimage positions reset_vector / ROMTOP at 0x0, resulting in an image size of ~ 1MB. Put another way, reset_vector is at offset 1MB on the flash device. At boot, the system fetches the address

Re: LinuxBIOS in 512KB flash

2002-10-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Hieu T. Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ron and Eric, Thank you for the response. The problem that we're having is that the generated romimage positions reset_vector / ROMTOP at 0x0, resulting in an image size of ~ 1MB. Put another way, reset_vector is at offset 1MB on the flash