Re: [coreboot] Coreboot binary for ASUS F2A85-M

[Daniel Kulesz]

Hi Maxim,

no it normally does not make any sounds, unless you have set e. g. grub to beep once its loaded. But you *need* to have a payload, otherwise nothing will boot. I suggest you try to SeaBIOS in the first instance. Also, you need to have either an external graphics cards (PCIe) or the vga bios, otherwise you also won't see anything on the screen until the point when you boot an operating system like linux which initializes the graphics.

The F2A-85M *does* have a serial port soldered on the board, but there is no connector for it. You need to get a simple cable like this one and connect it to your board:

https://www.quietpc.com/images/products/serial-port-pci-brackets-1-large.jpg

Cheers, Daniel

On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 15:33:00 -0500
Maxim Gusev  wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm using Athlon x2 340.
> The post card shows only 0000. Can it show something while loading? Or not...
> I dont use any payloads now and no vga bios.
> Also my mainboard dont have soldered serial port.
>
> Should the mainboard make sounds during the boot process?
> Thanks!
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Coreboot binary for ASUS F2A85-M
> Local Time: 20 Января 2017 г. 3:16 ночи
> UTC Time: 20 Января 2017 г. 00:16
> From: [e-mail]
> To: Maxim Gusev 
> [e-mail]
>
> Hi Max,
>
> I had my F2A-85M working with an A10-6700 which needed some additional tweaking because the Quadcore-CPU was causing timing issues in SeaBIOS. On my previous cpu (A4-5300) everything was fine so I suppose the same should work on your dualcore as well.
>
> You can find my config files (for the A10-6700) together with some logs in this commit:
>
> https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/board-status.git/commit/?id=947fdae2518172e...
>
> However, I also had the issue that I didn't receive any video output unless the Linux kernel initialized the video or I plugged an PCIe GPU. I tried including the VBIOS, but were out of luck for both CPUs/APUs.
>
> Did you try hooking up a serial cable to see what is going on (provided you have debug instructions compiled in).
>
> Cheers, Daniel

Coreboot binary for ASUS F2A85-M

[Maxim Gusev]

Hi Daniel,

Now I have compiled coreboot 4.5 with the SeaBIOS 1.9.3 as a payload and the VGAbios:
I am using the Asus EN8600GT as a videocard (PCIe) and I took out the binary here:
https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/?architecture=&manufacturer=Asus&...

Also I have turned on in console settings "Show POST codes...", but there is nothing works:(
At first I assumed that the programmer is broken, but the standart UEFI it programs correctly (i have programmed the "coreboot.rom" from build/ forder).

You suggested to use the serial port cable, but as I can see there is no serial port on my mainboard (only AAFP, USB...):

photo_2017-01-23_15-38-59.jpg

Thanks a lot for you help!

Sorry for the stupid questions if any, I'm just a beginner

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Coreboot binary for ASUS F2A85-M
Local Time: 23 Января 2017 г. 12:35 дня
UTC Time: 23 Января 2017 г. 09:35
From: [e-mail]
To: Maxim Gusev 
[e-mail]

Hi Maxim,

no it normally does not make any sounds, unless you have set e. g. grub to beep once its loaded. But you *need* to have a payload, otherwise nothing will boot. I suggest you try to SeaBIOS in the first instance. Also, you need to have either an external graphics cards (PCIe) or the vga bios, otherwise you also won't see anything on the screen until the point when you boot an operating system like linux which initializes the graphics.

The F2A-85M *does* have a serial port soldered on the board, but there is no connector for it. You need to get a simple cable like this one and connect it to your board:

https://www.quietpc.com/images/products/serial-port-pci-brackets-1-large.jpg

Cheers, Daniel

On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 15:33:00 -0500
Maxim Gusev  wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm using Athlon x2 340.
> The post card shows only 0000. Can it show something while loading? Or not...
> I dont use any payloads now and no vga bios.
> Also my mainboard dont have soldered serial port.
>
> Should the mainboard make sounds during the boot process?
> Thanks!
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Coreboot binary for ASUS F2A85-M
> Local Time: 20 Января 2017 г. 3:16 ночи
> UTC Time: 20 Января 2017 г. 00:16
> From: [e-mail]
> To: Maxim Gusev 
> [e-mail]
>
> Hi Max,
>
> I had my F2A-85M working with an A10-6700 which needed some additional tweaking because the Quadcore-CPU was causing timing issues in SeaBIOS. On my previous cpu (A4-5300) everything was fine so I suppose the same should work on your dualcore as well.
>
> You can find my config files (for the A10-6700) together with some logs in this commit:
>
> https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/board-status.git/commit/?id=947fdae2518172e...
>
> However, I also had the issue that I didn't receive any video output unless the Linux kernel initialized the video or I plugged an PCIe GPU. I tried including the VBIOS, but were out of luck for both CPUs/APUs.
>
> Did you try hooking up a serial cable to see what is going on (provided you have debug instructions compiled in).
>
> Cheers, Daniel