[MinnowBoard] Testing Coreboot.

[Ferchu R]

Hi Ros.

What you say, confirm what I was afraid of. Maybe you noticed it, that the
original Sage announcement starts by saying "The binary SageBIOS boot ROM
image,* which is easily flashed on the development board’s SPI Flash
device.*..". My speculation is that the update was meant to be made
directly to the SPI Flash, but in some point someone swapped the right
flashing procedure, with a guide used for other (legacy) systems (the given
guide isn't even Minnowboard specific, but a generic one). So I hope the
folks at Sage can check the instructions given when one download Coreboot,
and fix them.

2015-04-22 19:49 GMT-05:00 rossv <rosario.vumbaca at allieddata.com.au>:

> Hi Fernando,
>
> I have run into the exact same problem! I did e-mail them regarding this
> issue, but no response of course.
>
> I have taken a close look at the ISO file provided by Sage - there is no
> way
> in the world that it can boot under UEFI! There is simply no EFI payload.
> They are using legacy grub. It can only boot on a legacy BIOS.
>
> I have no idea why they would make all these announcements and then release
> something that doesn't even work on the taget platform! As an engineer I'm
> not particularly impressed by this effort. I would be happy to be proven
> wrong, but I have spent a lot of time already on this and I'm pretty sure
> that the installation method they describe is not ever going to work.
>
> I noticed that the ROM file is on the image, perhaps we could use Intel's
> flashing utility to perform the flash, but I don't want to make any
> assumptions and risk bricking my company's board over this.
>
>
>
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