On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Tom Sylla <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Myles Watson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I think you may still be able to get this part working without FILO, >>> but I am not sure how. The HT1000 SATA is not AHCI, so support for >>> AHCI won't actually help. The controller has normal PATA emulation >>> mode, as well as its own "QDMA" SATA mode (in lieu of AHCI). >> >> Are you saying that FILO shouldn't be working, or that SeaBIOS should >> be working? > > What Peter said, it seems like SeaBIOS could work, with some more > effort. There is some sort of combination of controller mode or > settings that should make it work, on our HT1000 platform, with > non-coreboot BIOS, we can boot all OSes in HT1000 "PATA" mode. We tried applying the patch that enabled the HT1000 with FILO to seabios, but it didn't make a difference.
>> The controller seems to be in SATA mode and works with FILO. > > That sort of sounded non-ideal from the original mail, but if it is no > problem, then there doesn't need to be more effort. It would have been nice to boot directly Coreboot+SeaBIOS instead of Coreboot+SeaBIOS+FILO. It would have made system administration easier. Since the box is now in a data center (or on its way) and I don't have one... It will have to be a future effort. Thanks, Myles -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
