Board:asus/a8n e
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Before you begin
The Asus K8N-E is a Athlon64 Socket 939 board (nforce 4 ultra) with socketed BIOS sold around 120 (mostly out of stock in 8/2007) (used at ebay 30-50 possible). It already boots LinuxBIOS. Latest legacy BIOS is from May 2006 v.1013. currently PS/2 keyboards do not work, but USB keyboards do.
The BIOS chip is of type SST _________ (s.o. pls fill in) of which you need a spare pre-programmed piece.
A8N-sli deluxe, an "nforce 4 sli" board probably shares the same pcb design with more solder pads populated (pls cnfirm), and is also out of stock mostly. Supporting more recent A8N boards is considered, but there is no confirmation about any one already working.
Payload
Building the payload
Current status of the LBv2 tree
Building LinuxBIOS
Burning LinuxBIOS
Running LinuxBIOS
Help?
TODO
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