Re: [SeaBIOS] VGA Option ROM not set up correctly when loaded by coreboot and not SeaBIOS

[Christian Gmeiner]

2013/3/18 Paul Menzel :
> Dear SeaBIOS,
>
> using the AMD/ATI based ASRock E350M1 [1] with coreboot and SeaBIOS
> 1.7.2.1 as a payload and GRUB 2 (1.99-27 from Debian Sid/unstable) on
> the hard drive, letting coreboot load the VGA Option ROM and disabling
> »Option ROMs« in the menu »BIOS interfaces«
>         config OPTIONROMS
>             bool "Option ROMS"
>             default y # I set it to n.
>             help
>                 Support finding and running option roms during POST.
>
> I only see »AMD Wrestler …« printed to the screen (from the VGA Option
> ROM loaded by coreboot I guess) and I neither see the SeaBIOS header(?)
> with version nor the bootmenu. GRUB 2 does not show its (terminal) menu
> either and just shows funny, colorful characters covering the whole
> screen.

http://www.coreboot.org/SeaBIOS#coreboot - do not load the vga option rom in
coreboot - do it in seabios.