[talk] [nycbug-talk] APU

[George Rosamond]

Okan Demirmen:
> On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Jared Davenport <jared at thegridsource.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 04/06/2014 04:20 PM, George Rosamond wrote:
>>>> Jared Davenport:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 04/06/2014 02:21 PM, George Rosamond wrote:
>>>>>> Jared Davenport:

Fat <snip>...

Got mine today.. been playing around for a while.

First, the heat sink issue has to be dealt with.  Unfortunately, I only
got one case for three boards (think circuit board art motif), and I'm
worried about overheating without a case and the heat dissipation.

Second, it was a headache to update the BIOS to the April 1 version
apu140401.rom.

I used the gooze.eu method with syslinux, and of course since it
decompresses on boot, the easiest route is to put the .rom on another
media, like an SD card.

http://www.gooze.eu/howto/pc-engines-unofficial-bios-howto

And in wonderful true standards fashion, "failing" seems to mean
success.  When does 1 mean 0. . .

http://www.gooze.eu/howto/pc-engines-unofficial-bios-howto/flashing-apu-bios-using-usb-disc

I assume it flashed correctly, as it seems to boot fine with:

Build date: Apr  1 2014

I only tried pfSense off a couple of SD cards several times and was
always stuck at:

Booting from Hard Disk...
Booting from 0000:7c00

1  pfSense
2  pfSense

F6 PXE
Boot:  1
\

Each time with multiple cards.

I am devoid of the fortitude to continue with this venture tonight.  I
think I have the right version of pfSense with
pfSense-2.1.1-RELEASE-4g-amd64-nanobsd.img.gz, but at this point, I'm
looking to jump back in tomorrow.

g