Hi Kevin, On 04.07.2008 20:59, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > Hi Carl-Daniel, > > On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 02:27:08PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > >> On 04.07.2008 08:40, Kevin O'Connor wrote: >> >>> I don't see anything unusual in the log. Did all the OSes die in the >>> same way? Did anything come up on the vga screen? What OSes did you >>> try? >>> >> I found the various "await_ide: ERROR" and "fail floppy_13XX" messages >> interesting. In another mail you said you're not sure the floppy support >> works with real hardware. Could that be one of the reasons for the >> problems Myles is seeing? >> > > I did notice the "await_ide: ERROR", but the cdrom code was written to > handle errors during ata_detect_medium (I guess real drives do that?). > The cdrom did eventually return a valid looking sector count and size, > so it doesn't look wrong to me. > > Myles stated that he had CONFIG_FLOPPY_SUPPORT disabled. If so, I > don't see it causing a problem as the code wouldn't even be included. > The "fail floppy_13XX" messages would be normal if the code isn't > compiled in - every floppy bios call would return a failure status. >
Hmmm. I do believe you. I'd be interested in what a proprietary BIOS does when no floppy is present and when floppy support is disabled. IIRC there is a BIOS call listing the number of floppies which never fails. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
