On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:21 AM, David Melik <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/6/09, Myles Watson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Do you have a null-modem cable? Did you see anything on the serial >> console? > > I have such cables; maybe not a serial console, but away from university I > have some old analog monitors....
Serial console in this context refers to connecting the serial port of the s4882 to another machine's via null modem cable and using a terminal emulator program like minicom, gtkterm, etc. on the other machine to see what the s4882 is writing to the serial port. > >> [...] if you grep the source for post_code you'll find some. > > Good. I will try this weekend. > >> 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? > > The .rom (saved on a WD 24000 that Slackware 10.2 cannot mount) size had > '5:' over 512 Kb I guess. The manual says 4 MB. Apparently my ROM is too > small... I doubt I need certain grub2 modules, but I know not what others > do. It's important that the size is exact. Flash is sized in megabits, so 4 Mbits = 512KB. This probably isn't the problem, I just wanted to make sure. There is a lot of valuable information on coreboot.org. I recommend reading through the developer pages. Thanks, Myles > Would it help Coreboot more if I make a smaller grub2 to test newer > coreboot2 on s4882 asap or if wait a while and 'prepend' (if it involves > soldering that is alright.) I know It can be specially configured; maybe > that needs more ROM. > >> Have you tried it with a warm reset? It's a bit of a long shot, but >> it can affect things sometimes. > > I think I at least tried or also turned it on later 1 - 3 times. > >> It is very unlikely that it is reaching the payload. [...] Grub2 from >> buildrom works well as long as you substitute ata for hd in the >> grub.cfg. > > I may try but would like to try serial consoles: > >> > I neither want to re-flash [old] BIOS nor yet try coreboot on my >> > alternate >> > Slackware system[....] > > --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
