Hi Kevin, On 28.06.2008 19:45, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > I have successfully installed and booted win-xp with coreboot-v2 and > legacybios under qemu.
Great! > Unfortunately, when I try to install or boot > win-xp with coreboot-v2 and legacybios on my via epia-m the system > hangs. > Hm. Off the top of my head, I see a few things you could try in order of increasing difficulty: - Linux installation CD in VESA 640x480x8 mode (e.g. openSUSE install DVD with graphical boot screen) - XP installation CD with slipstreamed SP3 - Win2000 installation CD with slipstreamed SP4 - XP (64bit) installation CD with and without slipstreamed SP3 - Vista both 32bit and 64bit (IIRC Vista 64bit was running under coreboot in Qemu last year) - Compare factory BIOS memory maps with your memory maps - Compare lspci (there have been interesting differences in the past) - Compare IRQ setup (IIRC Windows expects all interrupts to be enabled, Linux does not care) - Switch off debugging (might upset Windows) - Check SuperI/O differences, especially anything with interrupts and timers - Make sure there is no MP table in memory > At this point, I don't know if the problem is related to coreboot and > its epia-m support, or if it is related to legacybios. I've confirmed > that the hang does not occur inside the bios. The last thing the > install reports before hanging is "Setup is starting Windows". > A few hopefully useful links: *http://tinyurl.com/5dxvgr* http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B217073&x=9&y=17 http://pascalg.wordpress.com/2006/08/09/windowsxp-install-stalling-setup-is-starting-windows-but-it-never-started/ http://weblog.saardrimer.com/index.php/setup-is-starting-windows_106/ I hope this helps. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
