[coreboot] Qemu and SeaBios.

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Tue Nov 17 14:54:00 CET 2009



> Hi,
> since I want to use SeaBios on my real MoBo I wanted to try it out first
> using Qemu so I compiled coreboot v2 with the emulation MoBo and using
> the latest seabios-0.4.2. Now the problem is that qemu is booting all
> the time without getting seabios fully loaded:
> Got a
> payload

> Loading Segment: addr: 0x00000000000ef000 memsz: 0x0000000000011000
> filesz: 0x0000000000008612
> lb: [0x0000000000100000, 0x000000000011c000)
> Post relocation: addr: 0x00000000000ef000 memsz: 0x0000000000011000
> filesz: 0x0000000000008612
> using LZMA
> lzma: Decoding error = 1
> [ 0x00000000000ef000, 00000000000ef000, 0x0000000000100000) <-
> 00000000fffc68b0
> Clearing Segment: addr: 0x00000000000ef000 memsz: 0x0000000000011000
> dest 000ef000, end 00100000, bouncebuffer 3fc8000
> Loaded segments
> Jumping to boot code at fc1ec

Last time I checked, some versions of qemu don't allow the f segment (BIOS
area) to be written.  I use 0.9.1 (included with my Ubuntu distribution.)

I'm not sure that that's your problem, but it's a likely candidate.

Thanks,
Myles





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