On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Ivan Shmakov <[email protected]> wrote: > I wonder, did anyone try Coreboot and SeaBIOS on Gigabyte's > GA-M52S-S3P? >
The nvidia chipset is the biggest challenge. I don't know how close it is to the nvida support in coreboot. > I'm mainly interested in booting Linux 2.6-based GNU system via > GRUB 2 from a SATA HDD (with GPT), but I'd like to have other > boot devices (floppy and DVD drives, USB Flash) and systems > supported as well. This is a typical coreboot + seabios solution. > > One more issue is that the BIOS IC (labelled MX 25L4005AM2C) is > soldered to the board. I wonder, what'd be the recovery > procedure should the newly uploaded firmware fail to boot? There are a number of ways to handle recovery. Please see this page for more info: http://www.coreboot.org/Developer_Manual/Tools#External_EPROM.2FFlash_programmer_that_can_program_the_flash_chip_on_your_motherboard Marc > > TIA. > > The backstory is as follows. Suddenly, the vendor's BIOS has > decided that it needs a backup. Without hesitation, it choose one > of the HDD's attached, and wrote its copy there, reserving some 2113 > sectors at its tail as a “Host Protected Area” (HPA.) Effectively, > this has invalidated the drive's GPT, rendering the system > unbootable. Seemingly, no data (apart from the backup GPT) was > lost, but I'd like to avoid the surprises like this in the future. > > As I was unable to find the relevant BIOS configuration software for > AwardBIOS, I'm now looking if I should abandon such a misbehaved > variety of proprietary firmware completely for something free. > > -- > FSF associate member #7257 > > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot -- http://se-eng.com -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
