>>>>> Marc Jones <[email protected]> writes:
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Ivan Shmakov <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I wonder, did anyone try Coreboot and SeaBIOS on Gigabyte's
>> GA-M52S-S3P?
> The nvidia chipset is the biggest challenge. I don't know how close
> it is to the nvida support in coreboot.
I seem to be quite lucky in this respect, as I've just found
that I have at least two systems based on nVidia chipsets.
But I'm still interested in running Coreboot there.
As per [1], the “chipset north bridge” is “GeForce 6100 / nForce
430”, but I don't seem to find those listed in [2]?
[1] http://ee.gigabyte.com/products/page/mb/ga-m52s-s3p_10/
[2] http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Chipsets_and_Devices
>> I'm mainly interested in booting Linux 2.6-based GNU system via GRUB
>> 2 from a SATA HDD (with GPT), but I'd like to have other boot
>> devices (floppy and DVD drives, USB Flash) and systems supported as
>> well.
> This is a typical coreboot + seabios solution.
ACK, thanks.
>> One more issue is that the BIOS IC (labelled MX 25L4005AM2C)
… Which may be documented in [3] or [4].
[3] http://semiconductorstore.com/pdf/Macronix/SerialProductBrief.pdf
[4] http://www.mct.net/download/macronix/mx25l8005.pdf
>> is soldered to the board. I wonder, what'd be the recovery
>> procedure should the newly uploaded firmware fail to boot?
> There are a number of ways to handle recovery. Please see this page
> for more info:
> http://www.coreboot.org/Developer_Manual/Tools#External_EPROM.2FFlash_programmer_that_can_program_the_flash_chip_on_your_motherboard
This section is mainly concerned with the use of computer's
motherboard (with replaceable flash) instead of a “real”
programmer. In my case, the section below is more applicable:
--cut:
http://www.coreboot.org/Developer_Manual/Tools#In_Circuit_chip_programmer --
In Circuit chip programmer
Should allow you to program your BIOS even if it is soldered to the
motherboard.
• http://www.xeltek.com/pages.php?pageid=8
--cut:
http://www.coreboot.org/Developer_Manual/Tools#In_Circuit_chip_programmer --
Perhaps I'd even be able to build an in-system programmer myself
(especially if something like Avrdude [5] supports, or could be
tweaked to support, the protocol itself), but I'm not entirely
sure that the motherboard in question has all the relevant
circuitry to allow for in-system programming.
[5] http://www.nongnu.org/avrdude/
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