[talk] [nycbug-talk] APU

[George Rosamond]

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.

Of course pfSense looks for 9600, while the APU defaults to 115200.

Solved on that...

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