> I'm quite satisfied with bios flashing approach for pseudopalsy improved > from AI suggestion. >> >> > First you connect a multimeter to GND and VCC of the soic8 clip or > whatnot, and carefully observe the side pins to seat it successfully so > that the multimeter reads 3.3v >
Oh I also documented each pin's position and net from the magi board view stuff (although I lost some of that too I found a temp file with the pin chords in jt) and make sure I am seating it right. I've burnt so many boards, gotta make sure not to do a stupid thing. And then you get success even when everything is upside down and inverted and trying to break, it keeps working! > > Then drip hot glue at the corners of the soic8 clip, on the outside, away > from the board. The hot glue drips down and temporarily glues the clip to > the board. Because it is on the outside of the clip, when it hardens and > expands it presses the contacts tighter together rather than apart. > > I was impressed my board came in a handmade cardboard box, cut by hand to > the size of the board and folded over it in 4 directions. I cut holes in > the folds for the clip and I packed it still placed. > > But for some reason the dependencies for building coreboot seemed to be > missing from my system. Possibly I had installed them into a tmpfs mount > while running off the install cd before I got installation working. > > One trick for installation is to put /boot on traditional boot media, and > recursively grep for /gnu/store paths and put them on too. This lets you > separate the concern of mounting your root media between the kernel, the > bootloader, and the bios. Then organize per preference once all are working. >
