I'd like to get coreboot working on my PC. I think the north bridge is currently unsupported but I would like to help. I have written bootloaders for a proprietary PowerPC based system. Here I might be out of my depth but I willing to give it a go. A concern is that my BIOS chip is soldered down, but the motherboard has a dip switch labelled recover, which I think reflashes from a 3.5in disk when enabled. So that could get me back to a working system.
It's an HP Vectra VL400 mini-tower
Phoenix BIOS IP.01.04US The HP motherboard P/N is D9820-6009. Socket 370 Pentium III era.
Intel 815 north bridge. Intel 82801 - is that the south bridge?
NSC87360 Super IO
Flashrom reports Found chip "Intel 82802AB" (512 KB, FWH) at physical address 0xfff80000
lspci output attached
Chris
Chris Parsons wrote:
I'd like to get coreboot working on my PC.
Great!
A concern is that my BIOS chip is soldered down, but the motherboard has a dip switch labelled recover, which I think reflashes from a 3.5in disk when enabled. So that could get me back to a working system.
No. Unless there is a second ROM no switch will help you if coreboot doesn't run on the first attempt - which never happens.
I'm afraid you have to desolder the chip and mount a socket.
//Peter
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