On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:38:18PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
The checksum was wrong, so none of the values were used.
Ah, that makes sense.
It's not you doing this wrong. I think linuxbios should in fact reset the extended linuxbios range in cmos to the values it has hardcoded as defaults from the cmos options file.
Right. That would be cool.
I can't really seem to find any documentation about all the settings that are possible with lxbios; most seem straightforward enough, but is there something out there that describes each field?
No. The wild thing is these settings may be different in each mainboard and many of them are there because of copy & paste.
I see! Hmmm, it would be a nice project to do some code analysis to find out which port uses which settings, and document that.
boot_first = HDD boot_second = Network boot_third = Floppy boot_index = 0xe boot_countdown = 0xfa
I think these are used by some payload. Baremetal toolkit? Etherboot?
But not FILO, I take it?
I've started a page on lxbios on the LB wiki to document this:
Thanks, Ward.