FILO (IDE) problems with ubuntu 8.10 - coreboot

21 Jan 2009

      I installed a fresh copy of ubuntu 8.10 on my Tyan s2881 board and tried to boot with coreboot bios and am facing problems in the IDE driver.  I didn't have problem in the previous distro 8.04.
The FILO successfully opens the hda1:/boot/grub/menu.lst and displays the GRUB menu.  When I select any of the options, I get  read error:
    dev=(NULL), path=/boot/memtest86+.bin
    read_sector: device not open
    Couldn't read sector.
But the IDE dev was already open and the menu.lst is read successfully.
For filo config, I tried poll delays from 0 - 10.  For '0' delay, the drive doesn't get accessed at all.
Here is the log from start of FILO.
elfboot: Attempting to load payload.
rom_stream: 0xfffc0000 - 0xfffdffff
Found ELF candidate at offset 0
header_offset is 0
Try to load at offset 0x0
New segment addr 0x100000 size 0x39a4d0 offset 0xe0 filesize 0x12d20
(cleaned up) New segment addr 0x100000 size 0x39a4d0 offset 0xe0 filesize 0x12d2
0
New segment addr 0x49a4e0 size 0x48 offset 0x12e00 filesize 0x48
(cleaned up) New segment addr 0x49a4e0 size 0x48 offset 0x12e00 filesize 0x48
Dropping non PT_LOAD segment
Dropping non PT_LOAD segment
Dropping non PT_LOAD segment
Loading Segment: addr: 0x0000000000100000 memsz: 0x000000000039a4d0 filesz: 0x00
00000000012d20
Clearing Segment: addr: 0x0000000000112d20 memsz: 0x00000000003877b0
Loading Segment: addr: 0x000000000049a4e0 memsz: 0x0000000000000048 filesz: 0x00
00000000000048
Jumping to boot code at 0x10007c
FILO version 0.6.0rc1 (root@pondy) Wed Jan 21 20:22:57 CST 2009
boot eax = 0x2badb002
boot ebx = 0xf0400
boot arg = 0xf0400
ERROR: No such CMOS option (boot_devices)
Press <Enter> for default menu.lst (hda1:/boot/grub/menu.lst), or <Esc> for prompt...
menu: hda1:/boot/grub/menu.lst
dev=hda1, path=/boot/grub/default
init_controller: drive 0
Waiting for ide0 to become ready for reset... ok
Resetting ide0... ok
Testing for hda
Probing for hda
LBA mode, sectors=78125000
Init device params... ok
hda: LBA 40GB: WDC WD400BB-75DEA0
MASTER CHECK: master yes
/* slave */ --
drive is 0Partition 1 start 63 length 74862837
Mounted EXT2 filesystem
dev=hda1, path=/boot/grub/menu.lst
Partition 1 start 63 length 74862837
Mounted EXT2 filesystem
dev=hda1, path=/boot/grub/default
init_controller: drive 0
Waiting for ide0 to become ready for reset... ok
Resetting ide0... ok
Testing for hda
Probing for hda
LBA mode, sectors=78125000
Init device params... ok
hda: LBA 40GB: WDC WD400BB-75DEA0
MASTER CHECK: master yes
/* slave */ -- drive is 0
Partition 1 start 63 length 74862837
Mounted EXT2 filesystem
dev=hda1, path=/boot/grub/menu.lst
Partition 1 start 63 length 74862837
Mounted EXT2 filesystem
FILO 0.6.0rc1
===================================
Use the ^ and v keys to select which entry is highlighted.
      Press enter to boot the selected OS, 'e' to edit the
      commands before booting, 'a' to modify the kernel arguments
      before booting, or 'c' for a command-line.
================================
      Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-9-generic 
      Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-9-generic (recovery mode)
      Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic
      Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic (recovery mode)
      Ubuntu 8.10, memtest86+
      The highlighted entry will be booted automatically in 15 seconds.
.............
      The highlighted entry will be booted automatically in 1 seconds. 

      Booting 'Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-9-generic'
      kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-9-generic root=UUID=f2fb5830-a8c9-4c22-aa22-2762fcfa0ad9 ro console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0
      dev=(NULL), path=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-9-generic
      read_sector: device not open
      Couldn't read sector.
      File not found.
      Error 15: File not found
      Press any key to continue...
      FILO 0.6.0rc1
Booting 'Ubuntu 8.10, memtest86+'
kernel  /boot/memtest86+.bin
dev=(NULL), path=/boot/memtest86+.bin
read_sector: device not open
Couldn't read sector.
File not found.