LinuxBIOS SDK

4. Building LinuxBIOS

4.1 Preparations

For K7SEM motherboard,
$ linuxbios.init /usr/src/linuxbios/freebios /usr/src/linuxbios/configs/k7sem.config

For Winfast 6300 motherboard,
$ linuxbios.init /usr/src/linuxbios/freebios /usr/src/linuxbios/configs/winfast6300.config

After running linuxbios.init command, k7sem or winfast6300 will be created at /usr/src/linuxbios/buildrom respectively.

4.2 Building LinuxBIOS

Once the working directory is created, LinuxBIOS's IPL and kernel image can be built.

$ cd /usr/src/linuxbios/buildrom
$ make

It will create linux.bin.gz, linuxbios.strip and docipl. These files will be used during the flashing DiskOnChip steps.

4.3 LinuxBIOS Configuration Options

Keywords	value
target	none
commandline	boot command line
mainboard	none
linux	none
docipl	none
option DEBUG	none
option SERIAL_CONSOLE	none
option SERIAL_POST	none
option DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL	none
option MUST_ENABLE_FLOPPY	none
option NO_KEYBOARD	none
option USE_ELF_BOOT	none
option RAMTEST	none
option HAVE_PIRQ_TABLE	none
option OLD_KERNEL_HACK	none
option HAVE_FRAMEBUFFER	none
option DISABLE_INTERNAL_DEVICES	none

After changing the configuration file, linuxbios.init has to be re-run in order to have the new change to take effect.