Need help! Seabios hangs on "Press ESC for boot menu".

[Дмитрий Понаморев]

Seabios freezes (hangs) on "Press ESC for boot menu". Does not respond to
the keyboard and does not boot from the sata disk. Last post code 0x7b.
Console (full) output in putty_atomC3538.log. Coreboot 4.9 cfg in
coreboot.config. Seabios config in seabios.config.

[Matt DeVillier]

Atom boards need hardware IRQs disabled. so in SeaBIOS config:
CONFIG_HARDWARE_IRQ=y
needs to be
# CONFIG_HARDWARE_IRQ is not set

not sure if there is an easy way to set this when building coreboot outside
of saving the entire .config and telling coreboot to use that

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 9:44 AM Дмитрий Понаморев <[e-mail]>
wrote:
> Seabios freezes (hangs) on "Press ESC for boot menu". Does not respond to
> the keyboard and does not boot from the sata disk. Last post code 0x7b.
> Console (full) output in putty_atomC3538.log. Coreboot 4.9 cfg in
> coreboot.config. Seabios config in seabios.config.
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[Ivan Ivanov]

Someone also had this "SeaBIOS hangs" problem when they added the AMD
OptionROM with cbfstool without specifying " -t optionrom " , and
SeaBIOS hanged while trying to initialize it as a boot entry. Should
be added like " ./build/cbfstool ./build/coreboot.rom add -f
pci1002,6663.rom -n pci1002,6663.rom -t optionrom "

CBFS file type and SeaBIOS (was: Need help! Seabios hangs on "Press ESC for boot menu".)

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Ivan,


On 03/10/19 15:16, Ivan Ivanov wrote:
> Someone also had this "SeaBIOS hangs" problem when they added the AMD
> OptionROM with cbfstool without specifying " -t optionrom " , and
> SeaBIOS hanged while trying to initialize it as a boot entry. Should
> be added like " ./build/cbfstool ./build/coreboot.rom add -f
> pci1002,6663.rom -n pci1002,6663.rom -t optionrom "

To my knowledge, in contrast to coreboot, SeaBIOS does not evaluate the
type.

Please start a new thread and attach the debug log, if you experience
the problem you describe.


Kind regards,

Paul

CBFS file type and SeaBIOS (was: Need help! Seabios hangs on "Press ESC for boot menu".)

[Ivan Ivanov]

> Dear Ivan,
>
> On 03/10/19 15:16, Ivan Ivanov wrote:
> > Someone also had this "SeaBIOS hangs" problem when they added the AMD
> > OptionROM with cbfstool without specifying " -t optionrom " , and
> > SeaBIOS hanged while trying to initialize it as a boot entry. Should
> > be added like " ./build/cbfstool ./build/coreboot.rom add -f
> > pci1002,6663.rom -n pci1002,6663.rom -t optionrom "
>
> To my knowledge, in contrast to coreboot, SeaBIOS does not evaluate the
> type.
>
> Please start a new thread and attach the debug log, if you experience
> the problem you describe.
>
> Kind regards,
> Paul

Dear Paul, thank you for your reply. Although I don't experience this
problem - maybe because I always write "-t optionrom" in my command...
but maybe I'd test it in the future just to provide the error log if
this problem will be confirmed.