On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:37:56PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:27:35AM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote:
Now - the reason why I wanted to use sgabios, was to get the seabios console output on serial.
As you can see in the logs, sgabios is loaded too late to be much use for that (after the disk detection, and after seabios prints 'Press F12 for boot menu').
If sgabios is the way to get seabios to copy console to serial, would it be possible to load the sgabios option rom (much) earlier?
Sgabios isn't a PnP rom, and it therefore doesn't get called before the boot menu. You can try the patch to sgabios below - I don't know how reliable it will be.
That worked! However, the serial bug is apparently back - grub's printing 'Press any key to continue' very very slowly, and ignoring serial console input while that is happening. See boot log at:
http://ward.vandewege.net/coreboot/seabios/20090521-seabios-sgabios-serial-d...
Once grub gets to the 'press esc for menu' countdown, serial console works again.
Thanks, Ward.