Re: [coreboot] Hey

[Peter Stuge]

Hi,

Shant Kehyeian wrote:
> I have Samsung ARM chromebook

..
> I would like to ask about the payload. When I did the "make menuconfig"
> it wasn't by default the SeaBios., there wasn't at all ...there was
> GRUB 2 and I selected it...so My question is would it work as SeaBios
> to boot from usb ?

No.

SeaBIOS is a BIOS implementation and BIOS is fortunately x86-specific.

The method used by BIOSes to boot from USB doesn't apply at all on
other machines.

Unless someone provides a well-tested recipe for creating a full
working solution to replace what was shipped on your device I would
very strongly discourage you from experimenting with firmware unless
you are prepared to spend many days on doing recovery and years on
learning, as well as maybe a hundred USD/EUR/GBP on tools.

//Peter

Hey

[Shant Kehyeian]

Ahhh...So how will I use the coreboot for "Snow"...
I mean If I build SeaBios on Arm architecture and use it...would it be
useful ?
Could you please give me a solution to use the coreboot and boot my own
Ubuntu or Fedora on my ARM samsung chromebook ?
Thank you Peter,
Regards

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Peter Stuge  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Shant Kehyeian wrote:
> > I have Samsung ARM chromebook
>
> ..
> > I would like to ask about the payload. When I did the "make menuconfig"
> > it wasn't by default the SeaBios., there wasn't at all ...there was
> > GRUB 2 and I selected it...so My question is would it work as SeaBios
> > to boot from usb ?
>
> No.
>
> SeaBIOS is a BIOS implementation and BIOS is fortunately x86-specific.
>
> The method used by BIOSes to boot from USB doesn't apply at all on
> other machines.
>
> Unless someone provides a well-tested recipe for creating a full
> working solution to replace what was shipped on your device I would
> very strongly discourage you from experimenting with firmware unless
> you are prepared to spend many days on doing recovery and years on
> learning, as well as maybe a hundred USD/EUR/GBP on tools.
>
> //Peter