Re: [SeaBIOS] Issue booting to Linux Live DVD image using coreboot, SeaBIOS and QEMU

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 10:23:00AM -0700, Dustin Brazeau wrote:
> I'm attempting to use QEMU, coreboot and SeaBIOS to boot a live Fedora
> image. I have built a coreboot image with SeaBIOS as the payload. I can get
> QEMU to boot all the way to the SeaBIOS's boot menu, but pressing F12
> doesn't not take me to the boot menu list and then SeaBIOS continually
> prints out handle_02.
>
> Here is my qemu command line:
> qemu-system-i386 -M q35 -bios build/coreboot.rom -serial stdio -hda
> images/linux_hd.img -cdrom images/Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-22-3.iso
> -m 512

At first glance this looks like a coreboot issue, so I would ask on
the coreboot mailing list.  Also, you may wish to retry without the
q35 machine type as I'm not sure how well coreboot supports it.

If you think it is a SeaBIOS issue, then please retry with native
SeaBIOS (ie, remove the -bios part of the command line).

-Kevin

Issue booting to Linux Live DVD image using coreboot, SeaBIOS and QEMU

[Dustin Brazeau]

> At first glance this looks like a coreboot issue, so I would ask on
> the coreboot mailing list.  Also, you may wish to retry without the
> q35 machine type as I'm not sure how well coreboot supports it.
>
> If you think it is a SeaBIOS issue, then please retry with native
> SeaBIOS (ie, remove the -bios part of the command line).

Thank you for the reply. I since tried to use FILO as my payload instead of
SeaBIOS and still have issues, so I agree it seems to be an issue with
coreboot or my coreboot configuration. I have also tried the pc machine
type and not setting any machine type in QEMU with no luck. I put up a post
on the coreboot mailing list, so hopefully they can point me in the right
direction. Thanks again.

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Kevin O'Connor <[e-mail]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 10:23:00AM -0700, Dustin Brazeau wrote:
> > I'm attempting to use QEMU, coreboot and SeaBIOS to boot a live Fedora
> > image. I have built a coreboot image with SeaBIOS as the payload. I can
> > get
> > QEMU to boot all the way to the SeaBIOS's boot menu, but pressing F12
> > doesn't not take me to the boot menu list and then SeaBIOS continually
> > prints out handle_02.
> >
> > Here is my qemu command line:
> > qemu-system-i386 -M q35 -bios build/coreboot.rom -serial stdio -hda
> > images/linux_hd.img -cdrom images/Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-22-3.iso
> > -m 512
>
> At first glance this looks like a coreboot issue, so I would ask on
> the coreboot mailing list.  Also, you may wish to retry without the
> q35 machine type as I'm not sure how well coreboot supports it.
>
> If you think it is a SeaBIOS issue, then please retry with native
> SeaBIOS (ie, remove the -bios part of the command line).
>
> -Kevin