Right,
I saw on the wiki that the S50 was tested etc, so it should be "supported".
The bios is socketed! I can take some foto's next week for the wiki if desired!
I have attached several documents from the several commands. These commands where run on an Ubuntu 10.04 from a USB stick. It took about 10 minutes to start, but runs reasonable well :)
Flashrom.txt lists flashrom -V; on a sidenote, since I have several of these terminals, and I can 'hotswap' I could test the erase thing? How would this work and how would I recover if it goes bad. I'm willing to try if you give me detailed instructions :)
Superiotool didn't report anything interesting; there is no superio chip :)
I also attached lspci -vvvxxx and dmesg aswell as cpuinfo
To recap; I think it's an AMD Geode GX2 or LX, with an CS5536 'companion chip'.
The audiochip isn't anything special; it's an ACL655 and the network is powerd by an RTL8100CL.
What I'm hoping, is using someting like bayou to boot either whatever is stored on the local 'hdd' or boot an PXE image. USB would be handy too I suppose :)
Thanks for your time again;
Oliver
On 05/20/2010 07:27 PM, anders@jenbo.dk wrote:
Can the BIOS be swapped (is it socketed), do you have a spare (or one you fan borrow from motherboard) . Is the board using a supported or documented SuperIO (use superiotool, the manual, the we or your eyes to see what chip you have). Is the southbridg supported. Is the northbridg supported.
Mvh Anders
----- Reply message ----- Fra: "Oliver Schinagl" oliver@schinagl.nl Dato: tor., maj 20, 2010 18:28 Emne: [coreboot] Wyse S10 and coreboot Til: coreboot@coreboot.org
Hello all,
I am very interested in starting to play with coreboot and use it on some of my systems. I have been interested in coreboot and following it for a few years now.
I'll skip the chit chat and get straight to it. I got my hands on a few Wyse S10 thinclients, and they work quite well, booting via PXE or USB. Recently, I found some cheap Disk on Module 44pin 'ssd' and wanted to try them out in the S10.
Unforuntatly, I'm getting an error when trying to run someting from it; that the IDE port has been disabled.
Since getting a bios upgrade (which might not fix it) is a very tedious task; i decided to look at coreboot.
My question is, I suppose quite simple; Where do I start?
Thanks,
Oliver
-- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
Heres a few lines to test erase and restore every thing.
sudo flashrom -r S10.rom sudo rm ignoreme.txt sudo flashrom -E -V > flashrom-erase-SST49LF016C.txt sudo flashrom -w S10.rom
But i think there might actually be more to testing erase, then just erasing via the normal flashrom.
Take a full picture of the board and note posible revision numbers.
Try compiling the S50 code and flash the content to your bios. It seams that there is no com port so you will need a USB debug device if you want to debug the boot process.
If it doesn't work then all you have to do is boot up another S10, pull out it's bios (while the system is on), plug in the bad bios, and flash your S10.rom image to it, and then place one of them in the other board.
if your rom looks like this http://www.flashrom.org/images/thumb/8/85/Plcc32_in_socket.jpg/180px-Plcc32_... then it is recomented to glue push pins on top of them, to pull them out with out issues, using super glue. Like this http://www.flashrom.org/images/thumb/b/b8/Pushpin_roms_2.jpg/800px-Pushpin_r... It is still posible to break off the push pin if you can't fit it in the small computer when you are done.
-Anders
tor, 20 05 2010 kl. 20:20 +0200, skrev Oliver Schinagl:
Right,
I saw on the wiki that the S50 was tested etc, so it should be "supported".
The bios is socketed! I can take some foto's next week for the wiki if desired!
I have attached several documents from the several commands. These commands where run on an Ubuntu 10.04 from a USB stick. It took about 10 minutes to start, but runs reasonable well :)
Flashrom.txt lists flashrom -V; on a sidenote, since I have several of these terminals, and I can 'hotswap' I could test the erase thing? How would this work and how would I recover if it goes bad. I'm willing to try if you give me detailed instructions :)
Superiotool didn't report anything interesting; there is no superio chip :)
I also attached lspci -vvvxxx and dmesg aswell as cpuinfo
To recap; I think it's an AMD Geode GX2 or LX, with an CS5536 'companion chip'.
The audiochip isn't anything special; it's an ACL655 and the network is powerd by an RTL8100CL.
What I'm hoping, is using someting like bayou to boot either whatever is stored on the local 'hdd' or boot an PXE image. USB would be handy too I suppose :)
Thanks for your time again;
Oliver
On 05/20/2010 07:27 PM, anders@jenbo.dk wrote:
Can the BIOS be swapped (is it socketed), do you have a spare (or one you fan borrow from motherboard) . Is the board using a supported or documented SuperIO (use superiotool, the manual, the we or your eyes to see what chip you have). Is the southbridg supported. Is the northbridg supported.
Mvh Anders
----- Reply message ----- Fra: "Oliver Schinagl" oliver@schinagl.nl Dato: tor., maj 20, 2010 18:28 Emne: [coreboot] Wyse S10 and coreboot Til: coreboot@coreboot.org
Hello all,
I am very interested in starting to play with coreboot and use it on some of my systems. I have been interested in coreboot and following it for a few years now.
I'll skip the chit chat and get straight to it. I got my hands on a few Wyse S10 thinclients, and they work quite well, booting via PXE or USB. Recently, I found some cheap Disk on Module 44pin 'ssd' and wanted to try them out in the S10.
Unforuntatly, I'm getting an error when trying to run someting from it; that the IDE port has been disabled.
Since getting a bios upgrade (which might not fix it) is a very tedious task; i decided to look at coreboot.
My question is, I suppose quite simple; Where do I start?
Thanks,
Oliver
-- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
-- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
On 05/20/2010 09:48 PM, Anders Jenbo wrote:
Heres a few lines to test erase and restore every thing.
sudo flashrom -r S10.rom sudo rm ignoreme.txt sudo flashrom -E -V> flashrom-erase-SST49LF016C.txt sudo flashrom -w S10.rom
But i think there might actually be more to testing erase, then just erasing via the normal flashrom.
Take a full picture of the board and note posible revision numbers.
Try compiling the S50 code and flash the content to your bios. It seams that there is no com port so you will need a USB debug device if you want to debug the boot process.
Oh yeah, I forgot to ask; 'compile' how? Is there a good wiki page?
If it doesn't work then all you have to do is boot up another S10, pull out it's bios (while the system is on), plug in the bad bios, and flash your S10.rom image to it, and then place one of them in the other board.
if your rom looks like this http://www.flashrom.org/images/thumb/8/85/Plcc32_in_socket.jpg/180px-Plcc32_... then it is recomented to glue push pins on top of them, to pull them out with out issues, using super glue. Like this http://www.flashrom.org/images/thumb/b/b8/Pushpin_roms_2.jpg/800px-Pushpin_r... It is still posible to break off the push pin if you can't fit it in the small computer when you are done.
-Anders
tor, 20 05 2010 kl. 20:20 +0200, skrev Oliver Schinagl:
Right,
I saw on the wiki that the S50 was tested etc, so it should be "supported".
The bios is socketed! I can take some foto's next week for the wiki if desired!
I have attached several documents from the several commands. These commands where run on an Ubuntu 10.04 from a USB stick. It took about 10 minutes to start, but runs reasonable well :)
Flashrom.txt lists flashrom -V; on a sidenote, since I have several of these terminals, and I can 'hotswap' I could test the erase thing? How would this work and how would I recover if it goes bad. I'm willing to try if you give me detailed instructions :)
Superiotool didn't report anything interesting; there is no superio chip :)
I also attached lspci -vvvxxx and dmesg aswell as cpuinfo
To recap; I think it's an AMD Geode GX2 or LX, with an CS5536 'companion chip'.
The audiochip isn't anything special; it's an ACL655 and the network is powerd by an RTL8100CL.
What I'm hoping, is using someting like bayou to boot either whatever is stored on the local 'hdd' or boot an PXE image. USB would be handy too I suppose :)
Thanks for your time again;
Oliver
On 05/20/2010 07:27 PM, anders@jenbo.dk wrote:
Can the BIOS be swapped (is it socketed), do you have a spare (or one you fan borrow from motherboard) . Is the board using a supported or documented SuperIO (use superiotool, the manual, the we or your eyes to see what chip you have). Is the southbridg supported. Is the northbridg supported.
Mvh Anders
----- Reply message ----- Fra: "Oliver Schinagl"oliver@schinagl.nl Dato: tor., maj 20, 2010 18:28 Emne: [coreboot] Wyse S10 and coreboot Til:coreboot@coreboot.org
Hello all,
I am very interested in starting to play with coreboot and use it on some of my systems. I have been interested in coreboot and following it for a few years now.
I'll skip the chit chat and get straight to it. I got my hands on a few Wyse S10 thinclients, and they work quite well, booting via PXE or USB. Recently, I found some cheap Disk on Module 44pin 'ssd' and wanted to try them out in the S10.
Unforuntatly, I'm getting an error when trying to run someting from it; that the IDE port has been disabled.
Since getting a bios upgrade (which might not fix it) is a very tedious task; i decided to look at coreboot.
My question is, I suppose quite simple; Where do I start?
Thanks,
Oliver
-- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
-- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
Try compiling the S50 code and flash the content to your bios. It seams that there is no com port so you will need a USB debug device if you want to debug the boot process.
Oh yeah, I forgot to ask; 'compile' how? Is there a good wiki page?
The links here: http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot
like these: http://www.coreboot.org/Build_HOWTO http://www.coreboot.org/Download_coreboot
should help.
Thanks, Myles
On 05/20/2010 09:48 PM, Anders Jenbo wrote:
Heres a few lines to test erase and restore every thing.
sudo flashrom -r S10.rom sudo rm ignoreme.txt sudo flashrom -E -V> flashrom-erase-SST49LF016C.txt sudo flashrom -w S10.rom
But i think there might actually be more to testing erase, then just erasing via the normal flashrom.
Well if I dump the flash after the erase again, it should be an empty rom and thus erase worked?
Take a full picture of the board and note posible revision numbers.
I will try, the CPU has a heatsink glued on though
Try compiling the S50 code and flash the content to your bios. It seams that there is no com port so you will need a USB debug device if you want to debug the boot process.
The S10 has serial port (and I think the S50 too). Actually from the specs, the only difference seems to be 128mb onboard flash.
If it doesn't work then all you have to do is boot up another S10, pull out it's bios (while the system is on), plug in the bad bios, and flash your S10.rom image to it, and then place one of them in the other board.
if your rom looks like this http://www.flashrom.org/images/thumb/8/85/Plcc32_in_socket.jpg/180px-Plcc32_... then it is recomented to glue push pins on top of them, to pull them out with out issues, using super glue. Like this http://www.flashrom.org/images/thumb/b/b8/Pushpin_roms_2.jpg/800px-Pushpin_r... It is still posible to break off the push pin if you can't fit it in the small computer when you are done.
I hope this won't be required at all :) but I don't have a flash puller, so the pushpin tactics is a good idea.
Oliver
-Anders
tor, 20 05 2010 kl. 20:20 +0200, skrev Oliver Schinagl:
Right,
I saw on the wiki that the S50 was tested etc, so it should be "supported".
The bios is socketed! I can take some foto's next week for the wiki if desired!
I have attached several documents from the several commands. These commands where run on an Ubuntu 10.04 from a USB stick. It took about 10 minutes to start, but runs reasonable well :)
Flashrom.txt lists flashrom -V; on a sidenote, since I have several of these terminals, and I can 'hotswap' I could test the erase thing? How would this work and how would I recover if it goes bad. I'm willing to try if you give me detailed instructions :)
Superiotool didn't report anything interesting; there is no superio chip :)
I also attached lspci -vvvxxx and dmesg aswell as cpuinfo
To recap; I think it's an AMD Geode GX2 or LX, with an CS5536 'companion chip'.
The audiochip isn't anything special; it's an ACL655 and the network is powerd by an RTL8100CL.
What I'm hoping, is using someting like bayou to boot either whatever is stored on the local 'hdd' or boot an PXE image. USB would be handy too I suppose :)
Thanks for your time again;
Oliver
On 05/20/2010 07:27 PM, anders@jenbo.dk wrote:
Can the BIOS be swapped (is it socketed), do you have a spare (or one you fan borrow from motherboard) . Is the board using a supported or documented SuperIO (use superiotool, the manual, the we or your eyes to see what chip you have). Is the southbridg supported. Is the northbridg supported.
Mvh Anders
----- Reply message ----- Fra: "Oliver Schinagl"oliver@schinagl.nl Dato: tor., maj 20, 2010 18:28 Emne: [coreboot] Wyse S10 and coreboot Til:coreboot@coreboot.org
Hello all,
I am very interested in starting to play with coreboot and use it on some of my systems. I have been interested in coreboot and following it for a few years now.
I'll skip the chit chat and get straight to it. I got my hands on a few Wyse S10 thinclients, and they work quite well, booting via PXE or USB. Recently, I found some cheap Disk on Module 44pin 'ssd' and wanted to try them out in the S10.
Unforuntatly, I'm getting an error when trying to run someting from it; that the IDE port has been disabled.
Since getting a bios upgrade (which might not fix it) is a very tedious task; i decided to look at coreboot.
My question is, I suppose quite simple; Where do I start?
Thanks,
Oliver
-- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
-- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
Oliver Schinagl wrote:
i think there might actually be more to testing erase, then just erasing via the normal flashrom.
Well if I dump the flash after the erase again, it should be an empty rom and thus erase worked?
flashrom always verifies all operations that change flash chip contents and will generate an error message and exit non-zero if something did not verify successfully.
//Peter
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