Am Sonntag, den 21.08.2011, 07:00 -0600 schrieb Donovan Lavinder: > I decided to evict the Award BIOS for Coreboot, for some advanced features, > such as UEFI for example (upcoming BIOS won't support EFI, so I decided to > give Coreboot a shot), however, I first tried a well-known working firmware > snapshot in archived ZIP files of motherboard firmwares.
Could you please post an URL for that archive. > For my Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2HP Rev. 2.0 - I picked firmware ROM > from /GIGABYTE_MA78GM/ folder, and then burned that copy onto the main > firmware ROM flash chip, Using flashrom? > and several power-downs hoping the backup BIOS won't think of silly > idea of overwriting the main firmware flash with Award BIOS. Why several power-downs? Did something go wrong? > The verdict: IT WORKED! Congratulations! > However, I am getting rather strange behavior from WIndows XP - whenever it > boots up, it crashed (from safe mode, it stopped dead after "giveio.sys" > file was loaded - I think it could be AMD CPU driver that loads after > giveio.sys) - otherwise, Linux live CD distro (that I used to burn the > firmware) loaded fine on the computer. I am thinking it could be the bugs in > SeaBIOS. Can you post a serial log, so the developers can take a look what coreboot and payload versions are used. > System specification: > Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2HP (AMD 780G / SB710 chipsets) - similar to > GA-MA78GM-US2H > Gigabyte brand (can't remember model) AMD Radeon HD 4670 PCIe 2.0 1GB video > card (used as a main VGA controller) > Crucial Ballistix 2GB DDR-II 800MHz Dual-Channel kit > AMD Phenom II X4 Deneb 940 Black Series (for some reason, the firmware told > it to run at 2.0GHz instead of 3.0GHz) > Western Digital OEM Caivar 40GB SATA hard drive (WIndows XP Home Edition w/ > SP3) > Western Digital Caivar Blue 500GB SATA-II hard drive (secondary) > ASUS DRW 2014-L1T SATA DVD-RAM burner > PS/2 keyboard (PS/2 mouse won't work so I am using USB mouse. An excuse for > getting all USB keyboard and mouse! :) ) Could you register at our Wiki and set up a page with instructions and information about your motherboard! That would be awesome. I hope the developers can tell you more on how to get your board supported upstream. Thanks, Paul
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