Re: [coreboot] The OS of open source solution

[Stojsavljevic, Zoran]

Hello to everyone,

On Monday I was racing with the time, so I just sent email to acknowledge that I was able to bring FSP concept to 3.0.13 kernel (and disappeared few minutes later). Day and a half I was busy with completely another job.

First, I would like to thank to Patrick (Georgi) for unselfish help Patrick provided to me. Thank you, Patrick!

Second, David, my answers are down below regarding Win7 and Win8. Today I have started testing more than kernel 3.0.13 (which I have adopted to Bare Metal OS, since I am embedded guy). I found that very few kernels so far are booting. But 3.0.13 without flaw, constantly coming up!

I tried to do more impossible things, knowing that they will not work for now. These are to boot Win7 and Win8. I had Win7 HDD for IVB, and installed one HDD for Win8 using IVB CRB with EFI BIOS. Win8 seamlessly boots with IVB CRB with EFI BIOS. Knowing that Win7 requires EFI or UEFI BIOS (mandatory using EFI/UEFI BIOS drivers), I did not expect Win7 to boot. The pleasant surprise was that Win7 bootloader tried to boot Win7, concluded that Win7 is broken/damaged (NO EFI drivers), and safely redirected me back to Win7 bootloader VGA screen asking me for the options:
    Launch Startup Repair (recommended)
    Starts Windows Normally

With Win8, I had different story in my mind. I assumed (exchanging some thoughts internally with some designers) that Win8 is "dual", so it'll go to discover EFI/UEFI, but if it fails, it has different mechanisms to boot without EFI/UEFI. I tried to boot 3 times. All three times the blue Win8 flag/logo appeared with the message: Preparing Automatic Repair. And froze.

Log files attached for both cases.

Any thoughts/ideas/theories?

Thank you,
Zoran
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From: David Hendricks [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 10:39 PM
To: Stojsavljevic, Zoran
Cc: ron minnich; [e-mail]; David Hendricks; coreboot
Subject: Re: [coreboot] The OS of open source solution

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:48 AM, Stojsavljevic, Zoran  wrote:
Well...

Few minutes ago, I finally was able to do the impossible: To boot in this sequence: IVB FSP -> Coreboot -> SeaBIOS -> GRUB 0.97 (SuSE SLES 11 SP1) -> Linux 3.0.13 with Bare Metal capabilities.

Congratulations!

Do you have a copy of Windows 7 to try to install via CD-ROM? Maybe your method can help TankTang.

Thank you for the great support!
Zoran
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Most of The Time you should be "intel inside" to be capable to think "out of the box".
-----Original Message-----
From: ron minnich [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 8:02 AM
To: [e-mail]
Cc: Stojsavljevic, Zoran; David Hendricks; coreboot
Subject: Re: Re: [coreboot] The OS of open source solution

well, we are all interested in how to incorporate fsp into coreboot.
And you have an FSP binary. It seems to me we have a place to start.

ron

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 10:02 PM, [e-mail]  wrote:
> Hi Ron,
> I am sorry , I am just a freshman in CoreBoot.
> Do you interest in how to incorporate the Fsp into Coreboot?But the
> source code and the mechanism is not writed and created by myself.
>
> Thanks,
> Tank
> From: ron minnich
> Date: 2013-10-09 10:07
> To: [e-mail]
> CC: Stojsavljevic, Zoran; David Hendricks; coreboot
> Subject: Re: Re: [coreboot] The OS of open source solution On Tue, Oct
> 8, 2013 at 6:20 PM, [e-mail]  wrote:
> > Hi Ron
> >
> > I doesn't not drop fsp in to replace the mrc binary.
>
> We are very interested in what you are doing and if we can help in
> some way, please let us know.
>
> Thanks!
>
> ron

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