his is just a summary of the progress so far.
Using the A8N-E coreboot & FILO payload.
SATA Drive must be connected to SATA3 (tested) or 4 (untested)
Does not work with 4x512Mb of ram installed - Hangs
Boots with 1x512Mb in Black DIMM farthest from the CPU (DIMM 1 i think)
Will not reach flio prompt if PCI-E & PCI are in use (This was only tested with both and no cards present so it is unclear which (if not both) is causing the issue)
For my configuration Booting to ubuntu with / and /boot residing on /dev/sda3 (grub hd0,2), connected to sata3 the following manual commands are used:
Tell filo that we are using the 5th disk partition 3: filo> root=(hd4,2)
Kernel - get debug and output all to serial console: filo> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 ro debug console=ttyS0,115200n8
Initrd: filo> initrd=/initrd.img
Boot: filo> boot
So far nothing else has been tested.