A bug was found in freebios2/src/northbridge/via/vt8601/raminit.c

[Hendricks David W.]

Garbled output is usually a symptom of incorrect serial baud rate. It 
seems fine in the boot loader, perhaps he needs to pass 
console=ttys0,115200 to his kernel.

> > 
> > *******************************************************************
> > By the way, I am still working on filo. In my machine, after elfboot
> > passing control to filo, LinuxBIOS  Fallback restarts again. Following is
> > a piece of screenshot:
> > ......
> > Loading Segment: addr: 0x0000000000100000 memsz: 0x00000000000240e0
> > filesz: 0x000000000000a048
> > Clearing Segment: addr: 0x000000000010a048 memsz: 0x000000000001a098
> > Loading Segment: addr: 0x00000000001240e0 memsz: 0x0000000000000048
> > filesz: 0x0000000000000048
> > Jumping to boot code at 0x107d28
> > .8(=±sioÿ.
> 
> This looks like baud rate troubles in part. 
> 
> also, what does readelf -a of the filo show? your start address seems odd. 
> David, what do you think?
> 
> ron
> 
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