Hi,
I am presently looking at trying to get Coreboot up and running on an ASUS F2A85-M system. I am however running into some issues.
Using a bus pirate and flashrom I first backed up the original bios, then erased the chip and restored the bios to ensure I had the basic read/write capability working and this all worked correctly.
Then I proceeded to build a standard coreboot image using seabios as a payload (using an external VGA card), leaving all the settings as default apart from selecting the motherboard, upon writing this to the flash and rebooting the machine I had no output from the VGA adapter and nothing from the serial port.
Next I removed the external VGA and followed the instructions at http://www.coreboot.org/ASUS_F2A85-M taking a local copy of the VGA bios and embedding that into the coreboot image, rebuilt and re-flashed to get the same result as previous.
After some investigation I created a serial ice image and loaded that, this worked giving me a serial ice prompt on the COM port. Using this, and the QEMU provided, I proceeded to try and run the bios files created in the last two stages, in the serial ice I see a lot of reads (takes about 20 mins) before it exits with Bad memory pointer and core dumps.
I have been building the coreboot images on a different machine to the target (Core i7) but have rebuilt them with the crossgcc in case issues with the development PC where causing the issue, however I got the same results.
I am now at a loss of where to go next to get this working and would appreciate any insight.
The target system I am working on is F2A85-M 4GB Corsair Ram AMD A10 6800K FM2 CPU
Thanks Matt
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