[coreboot] Coreboot fails to initialize on ASUS A8V-E SE

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Thu Dec 3 23:28:07 CET 2009


On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I just built coreboot from SVN using the kconfig system for my ASUS
>> A8V-E SE. However, I never get anything after the "now booting...
>> fallback" message on the serial port. Also, the hard drive activity
>> light stays on solid.
>>
>> I had coreboot working fine on this exact board over a year ago. Then,
>> I had to use the manual build method. Back then, even when the video
>> card didn't initialize, I got a lot more output on the serial port.
>>
>> What should I try next? Do I still need to use the manual build method
>> for this board?
> It looks like there are quite a few differences between the old build's
> CONFIG_* settings and Kconfig's settings.  Does the old way still work for
> you with the latest svn?  If so, we can fix Kconfig to match and try that.
Here's the patch that makes most of the important things match.
There's really no good reason to go back to the old way of building.
Let's just fix what we're using.

Signed-off-by: Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com>

Thanks,
Myles
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