On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mats Erik Andersson wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I have observed a phenomenon too many times now to ignore it. >> When I leave an eepro100 network adapter in the pci slot, the >> emulator on Coreboot all to often comes to a halt, but its removal >> and an immediate cold boot lets Coreboot progress all the way >> into Filo. Of course the emulator admits to having found a non-VGA >> rom image, but then grounds to a halt, or in the best of cases >> spits out an execution exception, or on illegal x86 op-code. >> >> Can someone offer me an explanation, or point me to a procedure >> that makes the emulator less picky. > > Do you have a log file? >
There is almost certainly an instruction in that ROM that is not interpreted by the emulator. Too bad. The emulator was a good idea maybe but too many ROMs do things that are illegal in a true 8086 but legal in a penitum. ron -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
