actually, it's pretty consistent. Three minute or so wait, then I get this every time. LinuxBIOS-3.0.0 Wed Oct 3 13:53:25 PDT 2007 starting... Choosing fallback boot. LAR: Attempting to open 'fallback/initram'. LAR: Start 0xfff00000 len 0x100000 LAR: search for normal/payload/segment0 LAR: search for normal/payload/segment1 LAR: search for normal/option_table LAR: search for normal/stage2 LAR: search for normal/initram LAR: search for bootblock NO FILE FOUND LAR: Run file fallback/initram failed: No such file. Fallback failed. Try normal boot LAR: Attempting to open 'normal/initram'. LAR: Start 0xfff00000 len 0x100000 LAR: search for normal/payload/segment0 LAR: search for normal/payload/segment1 LAR: search for normal/option_table LAR: search for normal/stage2 LAR: search for normal/initram LAR: CHECK normal/initram @ 0xfff0d770 start 0xfff0d7b0 len 11092 reallen 11092 compression 0 entry 0x00000000 loadaddress 0x0000 where is 0xfff0d7b0
well, a lot of stuff has to work to get this far. POST is not working from C -- it's fine from assembly. I don't get the long delay on serial. It goes bye-bye when it jumps to initram.
But, hey, ... it's working more than it used to.
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