Hi,
what I did is to leave the SRM image in place, and only have one linuxbios to start.
There is still a way to recover even when you toast flash. I just don't know what it is :-(
There is a keyboard sequence that lets you talk to the maintenance processor. As it comes up try hitting ESC-ESC-rmc
Unfortunately in the remote management console there is no way to flash the machine's firmware. (No documented one at least). The RMC was the only thing being alife after the flash attempt.
The VIA chipsets are just plain hard. My code kind of works with one SDRAM in on the 8601 and 69x chipset. I didn't have the time to figure them out so I moved on. I am hoping VIA will get me some working code at some point.
So is it a good starting point to remove 2 of the 3 SDRAM Dimms until the whole thing boots somehow?
Best regards, Stefan