[haiku-development] AMD Geode nano-size motherboard

I'm been messing around trying to see if I could get Haiku to boot on
this nano-sized AMD Geode motherboard.  I was trying to copy over to a
compact flash card on another PC and wasn't able to get it to be
bootable.  Then I thought why not take the harddrive out of a laptop
that IS working and try that.  That did it.  It boots all the way up
into Haiku, well sometimes that is, see ticket #2063.  I then tried
installing the compact flash card as a slave IDE device and Haiku sees
it and I'm able to initialize it.  I then tried running installer and
that works as well. I then tried bootman and that "appears" to work.
I say appears since it doesn't seem to actually write to the drives
yet?  It just echos text back to the terminal, I'm guessing it's
somewhere on a dev's TODO list.
If there's anything that anyone would like me to try out on this board
just let me know and I can fire it out and try it out.  Eventually I
want to get it to boot off of the CF card, but looks like that's not
ready yet.  The system sees it as an IDE drive, but won't boot from it
still.  I have been able to get it to boot DSL from the CF card, and
iMedia Linux, so I know it's possible to boot something from a CF card
on this board.  I have a 4GB CF card, so it's not a space issue.

This board has a mini-pci socket on the bottom in which I've installed
a GPS board.  This GPS appears to the system as a 16950 (says it's
16550 compatible) serial port by Oxford semiconductor.  I've attached
a listdev output from this board to ticket #1262 in case anyone is
interested.  It's showing the Oxford card as "disabled", is that just
due to lack of a driver?

-scottmc

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