[LinuxBIOS] Quick & Easy Success with Tyan S1832DL! (SMP 440BX)

Corey Osgood corey_osgood at verizon.net
Fri Apr 27 09:09:25 CEST 2007


roger wrote:
> I just used Uwe's Tyan S1846 tree and everything *just* worked. :-)
>
> However, I don't mean everything worked.
>
>
> I've attached a log file of the boot for those curious.
>
> Here's Failure #1 - DRAM Verify Failure
> --- Begin Snip ---
> DRAM filled
> DRAM verify: 00000000-04000000
> 00000000 00010000 00020000 00030000 00040000 00050000 00060000 00070000
> 00080000 00090000 000a0000 F
> ail: @0x000a0000 Read value=0xffffffff
> Fail: @0x000a0004 Read value=0xffffffff
> Fail: @0x000a0008 Read value=0xffffffff
> ...
> (repeated millions of times)
> ...
> Fail: @0x000a0400 Read value=0xffffffff
> Aborting.
> 000a0400
> DRAM did _NOT_ verify!
> Done.
> --- End Snip ---
>   
Known issue, I figured you already knew. Ram init is very much broken on 
the i440bx northbridge.

-Corey




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