Hi there,
while my memdisk setup works perfectly well an an Intel system it fails like
this on a Via-C3 based Mini-ITX system (copied manualy, I hope I did not
make a mistake):
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Failed to Free base memory, sorry...
MEMDISK 2.08 (Debian, 2003-12-22) Copyright 2001-2003 H. Peter Anvin
e820: 0000000000000000 000000000009fc00 1
e820: 000000000009fc00 0000000000000400 1
e820: 00000000000f0000 0000000000010000 2
e820: 00000000ffff0000 0000000000010000 2
e820: 0000000000100000 00000000076f0000 1
e820: 00000000077f3000 000000000000d000 3
e820: 00000000077f0000 0000000000003000 4
Ramdisk at 0x07660000, length 0x00168000
command line: initrd=dose.img BOOT_IMAGE=memdisk
Disk is floppy, 1440 K, C/H/S = 80/2/18
Total size needed = 1440 bytes, allocating 2K
Old dos memory at 0x8b000 (map says 0xa0000), loading at 0x8a800
1588: 0xffff 15E801: 0x3c00 0x0666
INT 13 08: Sucess, count = 1, BPT = f000:8b26
old: int13 = f0009824 int15 = f000f859
new: int13 = 8a800008 int15 = 8a800272
Loading boot sector... booting...
Kein System oder Laufwerksfehler
Wechseln und taste dr?cken
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Sven
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> while my memdisk setup works perfectly well an an Intel system it fails like > this on a Via-C3 based Mini-ITX system (copied manualy, I hope I did not > make a mistake):Please be sure that your bios is up to date because many MiniITX bioses are broken. There is a big fix for pxe in the latest release. -- Erwan Velu Linux Cluster Distribution Project Manager Mandrakesoft 43 rue d'aboukir 75002 Paris Phone Number : +33 (0) 1 40 41 17 94 Fax Number : +33 (0) 1 40 41 92 00 Web site : http://www.mandrakesoft.com OpenPGP key : http://www.mandrakesecure.net/cks/
Erwan Velu <erwan at mandrakesoft.com> wrote:>> while my memdisk setup works perfectly well an an Intel system it fails like >> this on a Via-C3 based Mini-ITX system (copied manualy, I hope I did not >> make a mistake): > Please be sure that your bios is up to date because many MiniITX bioses > are broken. There is a big fix for pxe in the latest release.Hm, this looks like a checken-and-egg problem. The Memdisk stuff would be my prefered way for doing a bios update, as I dont have a floppy attached. Sven -- wenn ping auf localhost nicht funktioniert, solltest Du zuerst TCP/IP de- und neuinstallieren. (Mario Arndt in de.comm.protocols.tcp-ip) /me is giggls at ircnet, http://sven.gegg.us/ on the Web
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 11:58:05AM +0200, Sven Geggus wrote:> Erwan Velu <erwan at mandrakesoft.com> wrote: > >> while my memdisk setup works perfectly well an an Intel system it fails like > >> this on a Via-C3 based Mini-ITX system (copied manualy, I hope I did not > >> make a mistake): > > Please be sure that your bios is up to date because many MiniITX bioses > > are broken. There is a big fix for pxe in the latest release. > > Hm, this looks like a checken-and-egg problem. The Memdisk stuff would be > my prefered way for doing a bios update, as I dont have a floppy attached.If you have a cdrom, you could use the bootable dos img and use it without isolinux. -- Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.