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Hi Carl-Daniel,
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: | Hi Antoine, | | On 10.04.2008 18:23, Antoine Martin wrote: |> I've got this board I would like to get coreboot flashed on: |> *eBox-3850 |> **http://www.icoptech.com/ebox-pc/* |> |> 1) CPU is a via C3 Nemehia |> Northbridge is a VT8623 |> Southbridge is a VT82xxxxx? |> [...] |> The box cannot be opened easily as the cpu is glued on to the case... |> Which is why I would rather make sure it is possible to flash before I |> start damaging the box. |> | | Please do not try to flash any BIOS or firmware on a board you can't | access physically. That also applies if you can't open the box. | Flashing can go wrong and if you're porting coreboot to a new board, the | first image you flash is very likely not to boot far enough to reflash | the BIOS chip, so you have to open the case and remove the flash chip | anyway. If that is not possible, the machine is bricked. | If there is a reasonable chance that I can make it boot, I might take the risk of bricking one unit or having to find a creative way of opening and putting it back together (and that's assuming that the bios chip can be swapped out..) I won't blame anyone for it but myself if this goes wrong - and it often does...
So does it look like it might work from those specs? A lot of the via boards seem to be very similar, does the hardware and payload vary so much that this would be pointless?
Cheers Antoine