[dundee] OpenBIOS/LinuxBIOS

[Nistur]

I had thought of joining the mailing list, but the post I sent was 
pending approval. It took me until this morning to realise it's because 
my real email address is @googlemail.com not @gmail.com and I registered 
with my email @gmail.com... but yeah, tried reposting and I'll see what 
I get :) I'm also sitting on their IRC channel in case someone comes 
online  :)
I had to google my laptop info :( I feel out of touch. Damn.


Lee Hughes wrote:
> I'd love to be able to help you here
>
> but this it new stuff! and it's hot!!!
>
> great idea!!! well on the way to the open source computer!
>
> hahahaha
>
> I know this might sound a bit obvious, but have you tried
> asking on the mailing list for that project???
>
> I've just checked my mobo, and it's not on the list! darn!
>
>
> */gordon dunlop <gordon at zubenel.freeserve.co.uk>/* wrote:
>
>     When I went onto the Linuxbios site my heart nearly sank, I thought it
>     was my motherboard there, fortunately I have a A8N5X not a A8N-E, both
>     ASUS socket 939 - AMD64 motherboards - Nvidia4 chipsets - PCI express.
>     Slight differences ( I am trying to find out what the differences are,
>     all my motherboards in the computers I build are ASUS, so I'm an ASUS
>     fanboy). I would not want to try out Linuxbios on my main
>     workstation (
>     I already have grey hairs from my Fedora 6 being loused up after
>     moving
>     partitions, see previous posts). One thing that I noticed on the
>     Linuxbios site was the specification of the northbridge chipset and
>     southbridge for the A8N-E, which gave AMD for Northbridge and Nvidia
>     CK804 for the southbridge. On my A8N5X my northbridge is Nvidia CK804
>     and the southbridge (SATA controller) is Nvidia MCP04. In a Linuxbios
>     testing post (which I accidentally picked up via Google) they were
>     testing a A8N5X using coding for a southbridge Nvidia CK804!
>     Obviously I
>     am missing something here, are there any hardware experts in
>     Taylug that
>     could enlighten me on this as I am confused in the differences on
>     northbridge and southbridge descriptions between proprietary
>     motherboard
>     descriptions and Linuxbios.
>
>     Gordon
>
>
>
>     Nistur wrote:
>     > I have read reports on 3 second boot times to a console so if anyone
>     > has a supported motherboard that they trust themselves not to brick
>     > then I'd like to know if anyone succeeds :)
>     >
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