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

Nazo nazosan at gmail.com
Fri Aug 5 14:40:33 PDT 2005


On 8/5/05, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> 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
> 

Actually, no mention of intel ANYWHERE on the bios, which strikes me
as rather odd come to think of it considering it's an intel chipset
with intel cpus.  It doesn't really say the name of the chipset on
there or anything though, I had to look that up.




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