[coreboot] Dual boot!

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Fri Apr 11 00:47:45 CEST 2008


Hi,

On 11.04.2008 00:41, Bao C. Ha wrote:
> I would like to dual boot: either Linux or FreeBSD.
>
> If I build a coreboot bios using FILO as the payload, would I
> be able to load grub? Then, from grub, booting either Linux or
> FreeBSD? Or should I use grub2 as the payload?
>   

Sorry, GRUB uses BIOS services which we don't provide by default, so
you'll have to use FILO for Linux and ADLO for FreeBSD. It may be
possible to boot FreeBSD without ADLO, but I'm not familiar enough with
its source.


Regards,
Carl-Daniel




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