"Richard A. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 20:08:36 -0600 (MDT), Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> 
> >What is the current problem?
> 
> Dosen't seem to be making it to hardwaremain.  So far I've just been
> going through the code insureing that most things are set up the way
> I expect them to be setup.  Making sure it's not just some simple
> mis-configuration.   

The first place I would check is to see if you are reading the SPD
EEPROMs correctly.  This tends to be mainboard dependent.  And it
is the easiest place for the code to break.

> >Richard, what we did in debugging the 430tx was to first figure out how
> >the normal bios set things, bit for bit. Then, in the .inc for linuxbios,
> 
> Well... our "Normal" bios is General Softwares Embedded BIOS and I'd
> hardly call it normal.   However, it does boot so I'll do a dump on
> it and compare.

When the docs don't quite explain things that is a good way to go.
 
> >unimportant. Thanks are due once again to Eric Beiderman for this totally
> >excellent way of doing .inc files.
> 
> Yes... Most excellent.  Very slick.  Many kudos to Eric.

Welcome.
 
> >Dumping the northbridge this way allowed us to very quickly converge on a
> >working configuration.
> 
> Thanks for the info on ramtest and dumpnorth.  That should help quite
> a bit.  I'll go play some more.  I have a few other pressing issues
> though so I might not get to mess with this until next week.


Eric

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