[coreboot] Problems about booting windows xp

Rudolf Marek r.marek at assembler.cz
Fri Mar 6 10:08:03 CET 2009


Hi,

> 	I changed the dsdt.asl which take M2V-MX as an example.
> Now it stopped rebooting, but after the window xp scroll bar it
> hangs up, which supposed to show the log in screen. I am wondering 
> if there is any another places should be fixed.

Huh did not experienced such hang, try booting with VGA failsafe.

> And also in /src/arch/i386/boot/tables.c( function: write_tables line92)
> I changed rom_table_start=((512-64)*1024*1024)-64*1024 followed by an
> patch,
> May be it is wrong ,which address should I changed in this places?

it means put table on last 64kb on adderess 512MB-64MB. The -64MB is there 
because of integrated framebuffer. If you are not using it, you can put it 
anywhere in the memory >>1MB

Does linux still work with all that changes?

Thanks,
Rudolf





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