Re: [coreboot] seabios change to boot from last boot device for gPXE or other option rom booting

[Joe Julian]

Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 09:15:01AM -0700, Joe Julian wrote:
> > The hardcoded boot order method when using seabios with coreboot makes  
> > booting from option roms difficult if the number of hard drives  
> > installed is not a fixed number. I used this patch to allow choosing the  
> > last boot device by setting the nibble to 0xf. This allows me to boot  
> > from the gPXE option rom.
>
> I don't think that is necessary.
> >    IPL.bootorder = 0x00000231;
> >    IPL.bootorder = 0x0000231f;
>
> You want:
>     IPL.bootorder = 0x00002314;
>
> which will set the default order to option rom (BEV), floppy, cdrom,
> and then hard drive.
>
> -Kevin

Ah yes, I see. It threw me off because the boot menu showed all my hard 
drives and put gPXE as item 6.