STPC Elite + coreboot-v1 + FILO

[Mirko Velic]

Hi Everyone,

I found an old firewall lying around and decided to poke around in it, after
some time I discovered it was x86 based, but it had a proprietry BIOS which
doesn't let you boot anything except its own "firmware".

I managed to compile up coreboot-v1 for it, as its an "STPC Elite", which
isn't in coreboot-v2.
I have tried out filo-0.5, because I decided to go with the oldest I could
find.

I flashed over the bios, and it works (which im happy about), it just gets
stuck at elfboot :(

Not sure if anyone can help with this since its all so old, but if anyone
has any input it would be greatly appreciated :)

Regards, Mirko

[Peter Stuge]

Mirko Velic wrote:
> I flashed over the bios, and it works (which im happy about), it
> just gets stuck at elfboot :(
>
> Not sure if anyone can help with this since its all so old, but if
> anyone has any input it would be greatly appreciated :)

Please send serial output. See if you can enable more debugging. Both
in elfboot and in FILO. I suggest using filo-0.5.5 and trying the
very latest version of FILO.

Check your toolchain which is building FILO. Try using a much older
toolchain which might produce simpler ELF files. Try using objcopy to
regenerate the ELF file.

What else?

//Peter