[coreboot] help with win-xp and legacybios/coreboot

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Hi Kevin,

On 28.06.2008 19:45, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> I have successfully installed and booted win-xp with coreboot-v2 and
> legacybios under qemu.

Great!

> Unfortunately, when I try to install or boot
> win-xp with coreboot-v2 and legacybios on my via epia-m the system
> hangs.
>   

Hm. Off the top of my head, I see a few things you could try in order of
increasing difficulty:
- Linux installation CD in VESA 640x480x8 mode (e.g. openSUSE install
DVD with graphical boot screen)
- XP installation CD with slipstreamed SP3
- Win2000 installation CD with slipstreamed SP4
- XP (64bit) installation CD with and without slipstreamed SP3
- Vista both 32bit and 64bit (IIRC Vista 64bit was running under
coreboot in Qemu last year)
- Compare factory BIOS memory maps with your memory maps
- Compare lspci (there have been interesting differences in the past)
- Compare IRQ setup (IIRC Windows expects all interrupts to be enabled,
Linux does not care)
- Switch off debugging (might upset Windows)
- Check SuperI/O differences, especially anything with interrupts and timers
- Make sure there is no MP table in memory

> At this point, I don't know if the problem is related to coreboot and
> its epia-m support, or if it is related to legacybios.  I've confirmed
> that the hang does not occur inside the bios.  The last thing the
> install reports before hanging is "Setup is starting Windows".
>   

A few hopefully useful links:
*http://tinyurl.com/5dxvgr*
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B217073&x=9&y=17
http://pascalg.wordpress.com/2006/08/09/windowsxp-install-stalling-setup-is-starting-windows-but-it-never-started/
http://weblog.saardrimer.com/index.php/setup-is-starting-windows_106/


I hope this helps.


Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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