I opened the node up to check out the jumper situation and I did find some thing odd although I don't know what relevance it holds. The BIOS is a 4 meg chip, it has 2 partitions and linux bios is installed on the second partition. Moving the jumper from 2-3 to 1-2 position revealed that factory bios is still on the first partition. Trying to chain load etherboot failed with a lockup and bios post was complaining about "missing microcode for cpus". Among other things. I did get it to boot PXE on a Perceus cluster, but then ran out of time. I am hoping that re-flashing with an intel BIOS will correct the missing microcode and other issues that linux bios left behind. (Clearing the cmos did not help). I am also curious to see if flashrom picks up correctly now. I will keep you all updated.
Joshua McDowell - Lead integrator Sent from my Blackberry -----Original Message----- From: ron minnich <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 12:15:17 To: <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Stuge<[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [coreboot] jarrell_rom_jumper.c ( I think I found it ) On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Joshua McDowell <[email protected]> wrote: > Also, the factory flash docs never mention changing a jumper.. > A jumper would be surprising. Intel stopped doing jumpers on many boards before this board was made. ron -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
