[coreboot] FILO and SATA on 690/600

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 16.01.2009 20:41, Dan Lykowski wrote:
> Has anyone been able to boot a SATA drive using FILO on a 690/600 platform?
>   

Yes, I'm booting from SATA using FILO on an Asus M2A-VM. However, my two
SATA disks are SATA 2.0 they are connected the two ports of the first
channel (Primary Master + Slave or whatever they are called now).

> I keep getting IDE timeouts on detection. I originally thought that it might be the SATA flash that I am using, but it does the same thing with a standard HDD.
> Both devices are SATA 1.5g drives, so maybe my last patch to fall down to 1.5g is incomplete or broken? I don't have any SATA 2.0 drives around.
>   

Could be. I remember getting IDE timeouts back when the code only
supported one SATA drive.

> I have compared PCI configs between the prop BIOS and CB. From what I can see all of the settings that need to be the same are. 
>
> If someone else could give this a shot it would be appreciated. Any good ideas where to start trying to debug this would be appreciated also. I have already turned on debug messages, but the FILO prompt currently wipes them out before I can grab them so I can't post a log yet.
>   

Can you attach a serial console (minicom etc.) and log the boot messages
there? That should work fine.

Just in case you're being hit by an old bug which was seemingly fixed,
please check whether the behaviour differs between cold boot and warm
reset (with the reset button). Oh, and you want to test this with only 1
GB of RAM. That may or may not help, but the DSDT is a bit peculiar.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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