On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Corey Osgood corey.osgood@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 3:44 PM, ron minnich rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:53 PM, austinro@msu.edu wrote:
I'm not sure what other info might be useful, but I'll provide it or try whatever is asked. A few other possible clues: the factory bios only recognized half of my installed ram, but coreboot recognized all of it. With coreinfo or memtest as payloads, it did not restart, and it displayed the proper vga output.
can you remove the RAM that the BIOS did not find? In this way you remove any potential hardware problems.
ron
J7F4 only has one RAM slot. I'd seen similar behavior on my J7F2 (only sees 512MB of a 1GB stick, doesn't boot from PATA), the solution was some different code to initialize IDE.
Oops, sorry for the really unclear message. The problem with not booting from IDE was resolved with the different code, and I saw only 1/2 of the actual memory with the stock BIOS, never had a problem with coreboot. But apparently Aaron Lwe has made some changes since, and we've moved over to v4, so it's really hard to say exactly what/where/when it was broken.
-Corey
I no longer have that board though (it died about a year ago, and I didn't replace it), so I have no real way to test it out. The code may be kicking around in the v2 archives.
-Corey