A bug was found in freebios2/src/northbridge/via/vt8601/raminit.c
Hendricks David W.
dwh at lanl.gov
Tue Jul 6 13:32:00 CEST 2004
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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