On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 20:08 -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
probably because the cmos checksum is wrong. You need to use cmos_util (from LNXI ftp site) to set up the cmos with good params and checksum.
Ron, thanks for that pointer, I had not found mention of cmos_util in the docs I could find. My cmos is now fixed up, and I'm getting in to my normal image.
However, I'm not getting anywhere near my payload (filo, in this case). As soon as the northbridge (vt8601A) is initialized, nothing else happens: ----- LinuxBIOS-1.1.7.0Normal Wed Jan 19 20:13:17 PST 2005 starting... vt8601 init starting Slot 00 is SDRAM 04000000 bytes x2 Slot 01 is empty Slot 02 is empty Slot 03 is empty vt8601 done -----
That's the end of it. My understanding is that the southbridge (vt8231) should be getting initialized next, but we never get there.
I'm going to keep hammering on this, but has anybody else seen this problem and know a fix? If anybody has some thoughts, please let me know -- once I get it resolved, I'll post the fix here so it's recorded.
-Al