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

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Al Hooton wrote:

> 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:
> -----
> 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

I think you should set LOGLEVEL way up. 

did fallback get any further? I forget.

ron