Re: [coreboot] jarrell_rom_jumper.c ( I think I found it )

[ron minnich]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Joshua McDowell
 wrote:
> Also, the factory flash docs never mention changing a jumper..

A jumper would be surprising. Intel stopped doing jumpers on many
boards before this board was made.

ron

jarrell_rom_jumper.c ( I think I found it )

[Joshua McDowell]

I opened the node up to check out the jumper situation and I did find some thing odd although I don't know what relevance it holds.
  The BIOS is a 4 meg chip, it has 2 partitions and linux bios is installed on the second partition.  Moving the jumper from 2-3 to 1-2 position revealed that factory bios is still on the first partition.  Trying to chain load etherboot failed with a lockup and bios post was complaining about "missing microcode for cpus".  Among other things.  I did get it to boot PXE on a Perceus cluster, but then ran out of time.  I am hoping that re-flashing with an intel BIOS will correct the missing microcode and other issues that linux bios left behind. (Clearing the cmos did not help). I am also curious to see if flashrom picks up correctly now.  I will keep you all updated.

Joshua McDowell
  - Lead integrator

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-----Original Message-----
From: ron minnich

Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 12:15:17 
To: 
Cc: Peter Stuge; 
Subject: Re: [coreboot] jarrell_rom_jumper.c ( I think I found it )

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Joshua McDowell
 wrote:
> Also, the factory flash docs never mention changing a jumper..

A jumper would be surprising. Intel stopped doing jumpers on many
boards before this board was made.

ron