On Fri, December 15, 2017 11:10 am, Daniel K wrote:
Starting up with coreboot and SeaBIOS, the screen is completely black for around 30 seconds before my on-disc bootloader (grub2) is loaded and displayed.
I'm assuming SeaBIOS counts down with some timer before launching the on-disc bootloader but I don't see anything.
I want to use coreboot in text-mode so I'm not including a VGA rom.
That might be why you are getting the delay. Try adding it and see. I ran into the delay too and think that's what fixed it.
According to lspci (attached), I have two VGA devices:
You might need to edit src/device/Kconfig with:
config MULTIPLE_VGA_ADAPTERS bool default y