[syslinux] Survey: SYSLINUX: 2.13 works, 3.0x don't (H. Peter Anvin)

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Aug 5 14:25:10 PDT 2005


Nazo wrote:
> 
> Specifically, the bios
> seems to be an AMIBIOS, though I had the impression Supermicro must
> have played around with things a bit (just looking at the setup
> utility alone makes me wonder.)  The MB, if you forgot, is the
> Supermicro (their logo is the word Super with a big red dot, but, the
> company seems to be in existance today under the name Supermicro)
> P6DGE, which is based on the Intel 440GX chipset, and which utilizes
> SMP (currently being taken advantage of.)
 >

"440GX" and "AMIBIOS" are reminds me of one particular flash from the 
past... is there any mention of Intel in the startup screens at all?

Intel-branded 440GX AMIBIOSes were the platform which ended up having me 
track down an in-circuit emulator so I could figure out how they'd 
bungled the boot...

	-hpa




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