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

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Fri Apr 27 09:18:02 CEST 2007


* Corey Osgood <corey_osgood at verizon.net> [070427 09:09]:
> 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.


0xa0000 looks more like video memory to me. 

try checking 0-0x9ffff and 100000-TOM

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