On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Anose, Bijoy K (N-Aerotek) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > From: Ward Vandewege [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 6:56 PM > > To: Anose, Bijoy K (N-Aerotek) > > Cc: Myles Watson; Marc Jones; Coreboot > > Subject: Re: [coreboot] Coreboot on Tyan S2892 > > > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 07:04:49PM -0500, Anose, Bijoy K > > (N-Aerotek) wrote: > > > > So far it's just me seeing that, on one specific board > > (s2891). So > > > > don't worry about that too much just yet. > > > > > > True, I'll cross that bridge when I get there. > > > > > > First I'll need to be able to boot, period. So far, what > > I've done is > > > this: > > > > > > 1. Subversion checkout of latest buildrom 2. make menuconfig, > > > specifying Tyan S2892, 32-bit LAB 3. make > > > > > > Do I need to do further configuration (Config.lb etc)? I > > thought that > > > the menuconfig took care of everything. Maybe that was wishful > > > thinking.. > > > > It's not. The only other thing you need to do is *pre*pend > > the vga image to the generated image, which will generate an > > image that is exactly 1024KB large, and which you can flash, > > and which *should* just boot your system. > > > > I finally got coreboot+LAB to boot my target kernel/initrd on the SATA > disks (many thanks to Ward)! > > However, once the init script in the initrd attempts to assembly the > software > RAID, it fails because it can't see the SATA disks. How many do you have? Ward has seen a problem with some disk controllers not functioning on the ck804. I've never used more than one. > My guess is that coreboot is originally doing some low level block reads > from > the disk to load the kernel/initrd but when the final kernel attempts to > do a > SATA read from the disk, the controller has not been fully/properly > initialized, > and it fails. Have you tried configure the busybox shell to not load automatically, and looked at the SATA drives from there? I assume that whatever modifications that Myles made to successfully > boot from > SATA devices with coreboot+LAB on S2892 have trickled down to buildrom.. I used buildrom. I think the multiple drives may be getting you, though. Thanks, Myles
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