Andy, I LOVE YOU.
This is excellent news. By the way, the LinuxBIOS people announced
today that their BIOS was even able to boot Windows 2000 now. Their
BIOS includes parts of the Bochs BIOS, too.
Michael
On Monday, Nov 25, 2002, at 01:48 Europe/Berlin, Andy Green wrote:
Good news, the 256KByte Clean BIOS (cromwell) is booting up a normal
Mandrake
9 install here, without needing the boot CD or any FATX contact.
The two commands needed on the Linux side after install are
lilo -M /dev/hda
lilo
You also need to set /etc/lilo.conf to:
suppress-boot-time-BIOS-data
boot=/dev/hda2
root=/dev/hda2
install=/boot/boot-text.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=00
timeout=00
image=/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 append="devfs=mount kbd-reset"
initrd=/boot/initrd
label=Linux
read-only
after this the clean ROM is able to bring in the MBR (thanks to
Michael and
Milosch's work with integrating Bochs) which brings in the active
bootsector
and starts up Linux. The result is a fully functional and active boot,
except for the one remaining fly in the ointment: video is not properly
inited yet. We are getting some syncs from the video chip to the
encoder,
but right now they are the wrong frequency and the frequency changes
from
boot to boot. Ryan's work with Dirk Thierbach, the author of nvtv may
give
us a second way to achieve proper init.
I tried bringing up nvtv via SSH and fiddling with it, but it did not
have any
effect on what was being issued by the video chip.
If you are asking yourself why this at all important since Linux is
already
running on peoples' machines via the XBE loader, the answer is that
the Clean
BIOS is the first and only BIOS that you can put into a modchip and
run in
your box 100% legally. Microsoft can have no complaint about this
BIOS since
it includes none of their code, nor does it run native games. It has
an
importance outside of its obvious application in that it is a clear and
unarguably legitimate use for all flash-based modchips.
-Andy
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