Hi Juhana, Is the problem possiable caused by ACPI tables? Maybe you can remove HAVE_ACPI_TABLES from mainboard Kconfig file and have a try.
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Juhana Helovuo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I bought a new Asus M4A78-EM mainboard and started porting Coreboot to it. > This board is very similar to M4A785-M board I had recently. > > Since the chipset is almost the same, and the Super I/O is the same, I > configured and compiled for M4A785-M and Coreinfo worked on the first try, > VGA and all. No code changes were required. The BIOS for onboard VGA was > extracted with the bios_extract utility. > > I documented my initial results into the Coreboot wiki: > http://www.coreboot.org/ASUS_M4A78-EM > > Summary of results so far: > > * Coreinfo: runs fine, both on serial and VGA. > * SeaBIOS: ok, both on serial and VGA. USB mouse attached makes SeaBIOS > freeze on initialization. > * SeaBIOS can load Coreinfo, which again works. > * SeaBIOS can load FreeDOS from IDE CDROM. Seems to work ok. > * SeaBIOS freezes when loading Debian installer (syslinux) from IDE CDROM. > No useful output on serial and VGA is blank. > * SeaBIOS can load Grub2 from SATA disk. Text "Welcome to Grub!" flashes on > VGA, then the mainboard powers down, which makes debugging rather difficult. > > A boot log is attached. In this case FreeDOS was booted. Trying the same > with Debian installer CD looks the same from the serial port (except for CD > medium size). > > Any good ideas how to proceed from here? > Do you see anything suspicious in the boot log? -- Regards, Liu Tao -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
