EPIA halting after vt8601 init? (was Re: EPIA going immediately to fallback image?)

[Al Hooton]

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 20:08 -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> probably because the cmos checksum is wrong. You need to use cmos_util 
> (from LNXI ftp site) to set up the cmos with good params and checksum.

	Ron, thanks for that pointer, I had not found mention of cmos_util in
the docs I could find.  My cmos is now fixed up, and I'm getting in to
my normal image.

	However, I'm not getting anywhere near my payload (filo, in this case).
As soon as the northbridge (vt8601A) is initialized, nothing else
happens:
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LinuxBIOS-1.1.7.0Normal Wed Jan 19 20:13:17 PST 2005 starting...
vt8601 init starting
Slot 00 is SDRAM 04000000 bytes x2
Slot 01 is empty
Slot 02 is empty
Slot 03 is empty
vt8601 done
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	That's the end of it.  My understanding is that the southbridge
(vt8231) should be getting initialized next, but we never get there.

	I'm going to keep hammering on this, but has anybody else seen this
problem and know a fix?  If anybody has some thoughts, please let me
know -- once I get it resolved, I'll post the fix here so it's recorded.


-Al


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Al Hooton
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