[frgeek-michiana] Re: i-Opener

I have an eeprom programmer if someone has a bios images they'd like me to
try to load on the unit...

        Mike


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On Tue, 20 May 2003, Mike Cook wrote:

> After inspecting the i-Opener I powered it up put on a regular keyboard and 
> managed to get into the bios setup (ctrl-alt-esc rather than delete as the 
> bios splash screen says).  It recognizes a hard drive and boots a linux 
> kernel then dies because the kernel is unable to mount the root fs.  I 
> think this bios version may have some anti-hacking "features" in it (bios 
> version 05/09/2000-VP4-686-IPC_VIAC-00) that prevent the system from 
> booting from an external HD.  I have read some posts discussing ways around 
> this so there may be hope yet short of replacing the bios (about $16).  We 
> shouldn't need a HD mounted in the system once we can load a kernel into 
> the sandisk and put on a usb ethernet adapter, but one is needed to load 
> the sandisk and make it bootable.  See ya
> 
> Mike
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