Hi,

I am presently looking at trying to get Coreboot up and running on an
ASUS F2A85-M system. I am however running into some issues.

Using a bus pirate and flashrom I first backed up the original bios,
then erased the chip and restored the bios to ensure I had the basic
read/write capability working and this all worked correctly.

Then I proceeded to build a standard coreboot image using seabios as a
payload (using an external VGA card), leaving all the settings as
default apart from selecting the motherboard, upon writing this to the
flash and rebooting the machine I had no output from the VGA adapter and
nothing from the serial port.

Next I removed the external VGA and followed the instructions at
http://www.coreboot.org/ASUS_F2A85-M  taking a local copy of the VGA
bios and embedding that into the coreboot image, rebuilt and re-flashed
to get the same result as previous.

After some investigation I created a serial ice image and loaded that,
this worked giving me a serial ice prompt on the COM port.  Using this,
and the QEMU provided, I proceeded to try and run the bios files created
in the last two stages, in the serial ice I see a lot of reads (takes
about 20 mins) before it exits with Bad memory pointer and core dumps.

I have been building the coreboot images on a different machine to the
target (Core i7) but have rebuilt them with the crossgcc in case issues
with the development PC where causing the issue, however I got the same
results.

I am now at a loss of where to go next to get this working and would
appreciate any insight.

The target system I am working on is
F2A85-M
4GB Corsair Ram
AMD A10 6800K FM2 CPU

Thanks
Matt

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