On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Joe Korty <[email protected]> wrote: > As a first time coreboot user, I thought that I should first try it out > on a supported board. That way I would learn the ropes a bit before even > thinking about doing something more challenging. > > Naturally I am having troubles. I suspect that as a newbie I am probably > doing something stupid. But then I've heard that mb manufacturers like > to change things around without notice, so maybe I'm doing things right > and what was once a supported mb, no longer is. It looks like you're doing things right. It's dying really early, though.
> The details: > When booting coreboot, nothing happens for about 45 seconds. > Then the fans speed up to high and some messages start appearing > on the serial line. These messages print rather slowly (maybe > 1 second/message). They are: > > coreboot-4.0-r5521M Wed May 5 10:53:42 EDT 2010 starting... > *sysinfo range: [000cf000,000cf730] > bsp_apicid=00 > Enabling routing table for node 00 done. > Enabling SMP settings > (0,1) link=00 You could try an earlier revision. I can't think of what would slow it down that much. > At this point coreboot ceases to make forward progress. The > fans remain spinning at their highest settings. The VGA screen > is blank throughout. > > I put some printk's in setup_smb2, the crashing routine. They show > that setup_temp_row is called by setup_smb2 but never returns. Since it takes so long to get there, I think you'll have better luck trying to figure out what's wrong before that. > # --- extract H8DME-2's onboard Video ROM > > fgrep 'Video ROM' /proc/iomem > # displays "000c0000-000cafff : Video ROM" > sudo dd if=/dev/mem of=/tmp/vgabios.bin bs=4k skip=$((0xc0)) count=$((0xb)) > > # --- figure out the Video ROM's PCI Vendor,Device ID > # --- I _think_ the numbers I want are the second set shown, ie "15d9:1611". You want the first set. The second set is Supermicro's board ID. > lspci -v | fgrep VGA > # displays "01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 > ..." > > lspci -vn | fgrep -A1 01:05.0 > # displays "01:05.0 0300: 1002:515e (rev 02) > Subsystem: 15d9:1611" > Good luck, Myles -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
