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Bring your EPIA, EPIA-M or EPIA-MII board and make it run LinuxBIOS!
von Peter Stuge (Konsult Stuge)
Samstag, 02.06.2007, Workshop 2 (ICC-B/R43), 14:00-17:00 Uhr
Level: Intermediate / Advanced Max number of attendees: 20 -- Please register in advance at LinuxBIOS booth (Hall 12, Stand 80).
LinuxBIOS developers walk through how to configure and compile a LinuxBIOS that can be used to boot a Linux system on your VIA EPIA, EPIA-M or EPIA-MII from a boot server on the network, from a local IDE device or from a CompactFlash card. (CF is only available on EPIA-MII but with an adapter the CF card works exactly like an IDE device)
The workshop teaches attendees how to:
- configure and build EtherBoot for their EPIA board to boot from network
- configure and build LinuxBIOS with VGA support and the EtherBoot payload
- hotswap flash chips (http://linuxbios.org/images/thumb/b/b8/Pushpin_roms_2.jpg/800px-Pushpin_roms_2.jpg)
- flash the new LinuxBIOS to an empty flash chip in Linux
- configure and build FILO for their EPIA board to boot from IDE or CF
- finally rebuild LinuxBIOS using FILO as payload instead of EtherBoot
- optional: configure a boot server (the presenter will run a boot server for those who can only bring their EPIA board)
Attendees should bring the following to the workshop:
- an EPIA, EPIA-M or EPIA-MII board with power supply, keyboard and monitor or serial console
- an x86 Linux system with gcc 4.x (this can be either on the EPIA board or on a separate system)
- if you bring two systems (e.g. EPIA+laptop), remember to bring a crossover network cable
- one straight networking cable for each system
- one spare flash chip for the EPIA board or EUR 6 to purchase a pushpin flashchip
Attendees are expected to have experience with Linux system administration, open source software compilation and installation and boot loaders.
Über den Autor Peter Stuge:
Self-employed consultant with many years of experience in software, hardware, security, networking and databases. Started out as a hardware hacker early, taking apart electrical apparatus nearby already at age 4. Managed to put them back together again a few times too! Wrote first software and soldered first hardware at age 10. Currently actively following and occasionally contributing to the LinuxBIOS, OpenSSH portable, libusb and linux-pcmcia projects. Interests: Systems design, security, usability, effectivity, automation, networking, cars, RC models, electronic music and movies. I speak swedish, english and german. Oh, and I like Linux.
