On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 7:42 PM, David Melik <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks again (Myles & everyone) for discussing coreboot for s4882 until I > could compile & install. After doing so, my s4882 just has a blank screen
Do you have a null-modem cable? Did you see anything on the serial console? > and continually does 2 alternating beeps (like a siren.) The siren is the chipset complaining that its timer wasn't touched for too long. That sounds like an early problem. > I saw no POST codes on coreboot.org. I don't know where there's a list of them, but if you grep the source for post_code you'll find some. > I saved coreboot.rom and now have a > Slackware pII system up (no coreboot) as well as a Windows 2.4GHz Athlon. > What next? What size is your coreboot.rom (ls -l)? What size is your chip? That's a frequent problem. If you had to add another ROM, did you prepend it? Have you tried it with a warm reset? It's a bit of a long shot, but it can affect things sometimes. > I only installed grub2 as payload; grub2 may not be the problem: IIRC, I > included chainloader in grub2.elf: my '/' has LILO. Coreboot.org has > 'official grub' (grub2) and 'grub2' pages, which say different things, > though they likely mean the same thing. It is very unlikely that it is reaching the payload. If you're worried about that, use buildrom to build a payload. Grub2 from buildrom works well as long as you substitute ata for hd in the grub.cfg. > I neither want to re-flash old BIOS nor yet try coreboot on my alternate > Slackware system, though I plan to after any possible functional s4882 > build. > > Coreboot compiles within about 1 min. on 8-core a880 w/8Gb and would be > relatively quick even on dual pIII. I am unsure about pII (I skipped from > pI.) Does DJGPP work well on XP, or are Cygwin or MinGW like it? I have > never done GUI programming--incl. 'programming on an OS requiring GUI > (except in class)' and would rather not boot Windows until I learn to add it > to BOINC ( http://boinc.berkeley.edu ) on a LAN. > > --David > > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot > -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
