Hi all,
I recently picked up a VIA-MII10000 mini-ITX board I'm planning to use as a NAS device, but research has shown that the board is incapable of booting off the onboard CF slot using VIA BIOSes and further research lead me to coreboot as a possible solution.
Searching around lead me to this tutorial; http://www.coreboot.org/VIA_EPIA-M
I'm working with a 4Mbit Flash ROM (because I happened to have a tube of them on hand), I've backed up my BIOS to disk and to a second Flash chip so I'm now up to the point of actually building the ROM image.
Everything in the tutorial works fine up until Step 5 when I actually attempt to build the ROM image, I'm using a modified version of the Config.vga.filo from SVN, I've modified it to change the ROM_SIZE to 512*1024 and I've adjusted the path to the payload to point to the location where I'm storing my filo.elf.
I'm getting coreboot.rom out after I run make but it's 524288b (512kB/4Mb) so there is no room to add the VGA BIOS in (as extracted per the Tutorial), is it still necessary to do this or is it just a matter of the age of the tutorial? (I also did an xxd coreboot.rom | head and xxd coreboot.rom | tail but there appears to be "real" data at both ends of the file so I can't just "insert" the VGA BIOS) If it is still necessary, how do I go about doing it?
Working with current HEAD (rev 4347) from the coreboot-v2 repository.
Thanks,
Morgan