On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:27:35PM +0200, xdrudis wrote:
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 07:45:18PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
I think you're going to want SeaBIOS if you need to install Linux from a CD. I think filo has cd booting support, but I'd guess standard Linux distros wont work out of the box.
Mmmm... hadn't thought of that. Just a crazy idea:
Is there a payload to load another payload from disk/usb/cd/net instead of Flash ?.
It's probably easier to just use SeaBIOS.
I imagine the calling interface between coreboot and a payload is different than that between any of the payloads and the OS, but maybe it does not need to be so always ? I mean can you keep for example coreboot+filo+something in the flash where the original BIOS was, so that you boot fast from flash ordinarily and still use SeaBIOS (slowly)
SeaBIOS is not slow - it is smaller than filo (both compressed and uncompressed) and loads and initializes faster than filo. During one of my tests, SeaBIOS was 1.5 seconds faster to the boot menu than filo.
-Kevin