Coreboot and SeaBIOS

[mickchip]

Brilliant, is this with acpi enabled and what about trying a pre installed WIN7 on usb.
I have win 7 on a usb hard drive that boots on my Q1 ultra & my Benq s6.

[inaxeon]

Yes this is ACPI enabled. Win 7 won't run without it.

It's actually running the installer (to PATA HDD) as I type this. Tense moment...

[pete]

I did see a note some where related to Linux about the whole no EDID and ACPI=1 topic; mostly like it should work but the initial graphics display in x windows is a bit trashed relating to the HD SD type screen resolution. I couldn't figure out whether what exactly the post was saying; or whether it even solved an issue. Something about a kind of mickey mouse fix that didn't take advantage of the video processing but did allow you to see the video then manually running an application after load of the OS. Takes me to the time I was playing around with the Mimo USB monitor to debian running seagate dockstar thing....

Here all I have is a portable blue ray slotted drive; so I powered it from the USB hub on the desktop and plugged the USB port on the side of the Joggler illuminating the Jogglers backlight; but I could get not get the drive to spin up let along boot with W7, W2003, W2008 and W2011 (but thats 64bit anyways). I have used it though with the Joggler for the Linux booting thing and will boot.

[inaxeon]

OK - this is interesting. The Windows 7 Installer starts reliably every time, just so long as there's no Keyboard or Mouse plugged in.

This would tell me it's having troubles with the UHCI controller. I endured absolute hell trying to make the US15W's UHCI work in SeaBIOS, so I'm wondering if something's a little incomplete here...

I've even managed to get through the whole setup process, only to blue screen at the end, whinging of USB problems.

[mickchip]

Any chance of a coreboot 0.4 so we can try booting from usb, I know its a bit cheeky but if you don't ask!

[pete]

just so long as there's no Keyboard or Mouse plugged in.

I don't know if it makes a difference but when I switched using either the internal USB port and the external USB port or vice versa; I saw a difference and I don't really know why. For now I've left the combo keyboard/mouse plugged into the interior USB port and the memory sticks, drives, CD rom plugged in to the exterior USB port. I don't think though it should make a difference either way.

inaxeon,

The USB keyboard thing though was present in the first rom wasn't it anyways?

I mean I could use the keyboard in the bios menu just fine then it would freeze up on any OS load. With the latest it does work in the text only OS loads whether they are linux or windows dos loads; just not with any sort of graphics. (old TV after hours fuzzy screen stuff). It also shows basic graphics to some of the dos utils with basic intro screens..

[inaxeon]

Any chance of a coreboot 0.4 so we can try booting from usb, I know its a bit cheeky but if you don't ask!

It's quite a bit of work to clean up a build and do a release. I'd rather wait till I'm at an atomic state.

[inaxeon]

The USB keyboard thing though was present in the first rom wasn't it anyways?

There's a number of keyboard problems. DSL has Keyboard problems because it's an ancient kernel, which is trying to talk to an i8042, which the Joggler doesn't have, hence the "Key Jammed (0xFF)" error - that's never going to go away.

But even on Linux builds with modern kernels, the keyboard is still stuffed because the IRQ routing was broken, it couldn't ever fully crank up the UHCI.

Interestingly I got one of these fellas:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... s.85).aspx

They don't happen if the hardware is correctly configured - so I've still got work to do.

[mickchip]

OK that's fine, just me being a bit to eager! we have been along time trying to get OS's to work so a bit longer won't hurt.
Hirens boot CD 15.3 seems to boot OK, will try a few of the utils.

[pete]

Its great that you are providing us with seabios for the Joggler inaxeon! Its like "back to the future".

[mickchip]

This is what I get booting a pre-installed win7 on usb drive

[inaxeon]

I've uploaded another build. If you can find any patterns as to when Win 7 boots and doesn't boot, let me know.

It seems to be easiest when nothing other than the CD-ROM is connected. As soon as you start connecting other stuff it hangs.

I have a suspicion you won't get far with it pre-installed on a HD. If you manage to make it all the way through the setup (I did once), it works a lot better after that.

[pete]

Thank you inaxeon!

[mickchip]

Thanks for that, will have to give it a try tomorrow (bed time)

[pete]

Installed ROM via new bios feature. Installation was flawless and very quick.

I am testing with the multi do what combo CD Rom USB stick.

Trying the graphical interfaces I see the Keyboard numlock LED flash then hash for video.

I'll try a CD later on tonight.

Trying puppy linux now just to see.

[inaxeon]

boom... BOOM!



It seems you have to unplug everything USB when booting up, but you can plug it all in again once its booted, then it's stable. This basically means only PATA boot is possible right now.

[roobarb!]

Sorry to repeat myself, but blimey charlie!

[mickchip]

Wow! is that using the posted coreboot.rom
I can get the installer to boot but then can't enter anything as usb port seems turned off.

[inaxeon]

I made a few more tweaks to the ACPI tables last night, may or may not make any difference. I just uploaded what I'm using right now. (still 0.4)

You may not get very far using a USB hub. I certainly didn't. I've got a few extra USB ports wired onto my Joggler.

Mine seems to be going really good now - just so long as I don't boot up with my USB CD-ROM drive connected, then it never boots.

[mickchip]

I got it to boot to the installer with nothing but the usb dvd drive and the touchscreen was working but when I tapped install it hung.