Anthony Ross wrote:
]Hello Coreboot Folks, ] ]Well Thanks for the suggestions. It seems that DUET boots but now a major problem has ]cropped up. It freezes at the main DUET-BIOS page not allowing to perform any further ]operations, like booting a HDD image or fingering around the EFI BIOS options. Similarly ]If I had the .lzma to the cbfs file name I face the same problem like earlier so having ]it as myfloppy.img makes it take effect. ] ] ]Any further Ideas about these problems..... ] ] ]Regards.. ] ] ]Neo
For your freeze problem, how are you debugging? The usual way is to enable and capture debug messages written to a serial port. I believe the standard Duet settings make it write debugging messages to a serial port at 3F8 (115200,8,N,1). Because halt for assert is enabled by default on Duet, an assert is the most likely reason for a freeze. The assert will log details to the serial port.
If your hardware doesn't have a serial port, you can use an emulator such as simnow or qemu. A good thing about Duet is that it is generic and in theory can run on different systems without porting. If I remember correctly, the current Duet project can boot to the UEFI shell and menu system on AMD simnow using the Solo board model.
I am working on a project to allow Duet to run as a coreboot payload, and to fix the major Duet problems. It will also continue to support bootable image form. It may take me a few weeks to reach the goal of booting operating systems in UEFI mode on real hardware though.
Thanks, Scott
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Kevin O'Connor kevin@koconnor.net wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:17:33AM -0500, Scott Duplichan wrote:
Scott Duplichan wrote:
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]I have no experience with making SeaBIOS boot an embedded floppy ]image. I may be able to give this a try, but I would have to first overcome ]Windows build problems that have crept into both SeaBIOS and coreboot.
I tested the SeaBIOS virtual floppy boot with EDK2 Duet and it worked for me. I tested with the ASRock e350M1 project. Here is the cbfstool output:
Thanks for confirming.
scott@p67-2600k /D/coreboot/win-build-env-011/coreboot/build $ cbfstool.exe coreboot.rom print coreboot.rom: zd kB, bootblocksize 4096, romsize 1008, offset 0x400000 alignment: 0 bytes
Name Offset Type Size cmos_layout.bin 0x0 cmos_layout 1776 pci1002,9802.rom 0x740 optionrom 57856 fallback/romstage 0xe980 stage 345432 fallback/coreboot_ram 0x62f40 stage 203312 fallback/payload 0x949c0 payload 53738 config 0xa1c00 raw 3831 (empty) 0xa2b40 null 3526744
scott@p67-2600k /D/coreboot/win-build-env-011/coreboot/build $ cbfstool.exe coreboot.rom add -f /d/duetfloppy.img -n floppyimg/duetfloppy.img -t raw
FYI, it's also possible to add an lzma compressed image (make sure the cbfs filename ends in ".lzma" then).
-Kevin