That method of emergency recovery with a USB stick has already been wiped out by installing coreboot.
-Matt On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 4:09 PM Pablo Correa Gómez <ablocor...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hello and thank you in advance for your time. > > I recently bought a KGPE-D16 motherboard with a single AMD Opeteron > 8262SE and coreboot installed. I bought from another supplier 4 memory > sticks Samsung 8GB (M393B1K70DH0-YK0) that per this thread[1] should > work with coreboot. I am able to start the assembled system and to get > serial output. According to the logs, coreboot first does the > initialisation and training of the memory and then start working on the > PCIs. At one point in the boot sequence, I get the following message: > > Loaded segments > BS: BS_PAYLOAD_LOAD times (us): entry 0 run 80561 exit 0 > POST: 0x7b > Jumping to boot code at 000ff06e(b7cc1000) > POST: 0xf8 > CPU0: stack: 00150000 - 00151000, lowest used address 001509e0, stack > used: 1568 bytes > entry = 0x000ff06e > lb_start = 0x00100000 > lb_size = 0x00116270 > buffer = 0xbfdd3000 > > Then it stalls for like 20-30 seconds and the booting process restarts > from the beginning. I had considered different options in order to boot > and I would like to know if someone would have any recommendations. > Right now my priority is to get the system up and working. I can worry > about installing coreboot later, but having it now is for sure a plus: > 1) Buy a new chip with the original ASUS BIOS in order to boot the > system. > 2) Externally flash the chip I have right now with a newer version of > coreboot. I probably have enough things at home to flash it, but I have > not found information from ASUS. In coreboot there is some information > but very general and not enough for my knowledge. As far as I have read > from flashrom, I should be able to flash it using a Raspberry Pi or a > BeagleBone Black, but KGPE-D16 is not marked as supported and I don't > know which model is the BIOS chip to check if it is supported. > 3) The moderboard datasheet has a section called: "Force BIOS > recovery setting", which says that in order to flash the proprietary > BIOS, it is as simple as changing a jumper an inserting an USB stick. I > would have already done it if I would not be reluctant to believe that > it is that simple. > > Which are your thoughts about this ideas? Any other one that would be > simpler and would let me boot the full system? > > Thank you very much, > Pablo. > > > NOTE: I have tried with the 4 sticks in the orange slots, the 4 sticks > in the 4 further DIMMs from the CPU (2 orange, 2 black) and those > configurations both 1.35 and 1.5V. Logs are slightly different, in the > training section, but the problem while booting remains. A USB stick > with Debian Installer has been plugged-in during since boot process > begins. > > [1] https://mail.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2017-February/083151.h > tml > <https://mail.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2017-February/083151.html> > _______________________________________________ > coreboot mailing list -- coreboot@coreboot.org > To unsubscribe send an email to coreboot-le...@coreboot.org >
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