Branden Waldner wrote:
I haven't had much luck in finding options for recovery. Ideally I'd like something like the dual switched bios in the old wiki but toggle-able electronically ie. gpio pin from spare router w/ Openwrt.
That's the product BIOS Savior RD1 from Taiwanese IOSS, switched by a jumper which could be replaced by e.g. a 2N7000 FET driven by a GPIO.
https://www.coreboot.org/Developer_Manual/Tools#BIOS_Savior https://www.overclockers.com/bios-savior/
There were a few different versions, IIRC one being for parallel 5V.
They seem no longer available, but you could add a watch on ebay or such.
VultureProg was mentioned - even a DIY emulator would be fairly straightforward; that's a nice microcontroller project.
Where are you located?
Branden Waldner wrote:
That's great to hear. I hope you didn't need to build crossgcc-i386 on the P2B, though! :P
Well, it's got a gentoo install that has to build it's own updates, including the system compiler, as well as crossgcc-i386.
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It would probably be a lot faster if I could get a better cpu
You can use Gentoo releng's catalyst tool to build an i686 stage4 on any x86_64 build machine in half an hour or so, you'll just need to use a profile with i686 (17.0 should work) and possibly an older snapshot.
If you're interested in trying that I could help with a spec file, catalyst isn't very well documented.
//Peter