[MinnowBoard] Problem with legacy BIOS and installing Fedora timesys

[Darren Hart]

On 5/8/15, 10:22 AM, "John 'Warthog9' Hawley" <warthog9 at eaglescrag.net>
wrote:

>On 05/08/2015 06:30 AM, Anteja Vuk-Maček wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have problem with booting Fedora 18 timesys, for Fedora I need legacy
>> BIOS which will work on MinnowMax. I try with firmware for Intel Bayley
>> Bay CRB board, coreboot with SeaBios, ByoCore BIOS and SageBIOS but
>> problem is I can install Fedora 18.
>
>Keeping in mind that Fedora 18 is quite old at this point, and the
>kernel it has is likely old enough to not have much of the support for
>the SoC or things on the board.  What you are seeing may be more an
>indication that the kernel is too old to deal with the newer hardware
>than anything else.
>
>I'd generally recommend Fedora 20 or 21 right now if you are going to
>use Fedora as your distro.

Also note the "timesys" in the description. They tend to provide some
board specific support packages (including kernel) on top of an old Fedora
base. If you are getting the image from Timesys, you will need to work
with them on support as we don't have their kernel, their sources, the
kernel version, or a list of changes applied on top of it.

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center