[coreboot] Dual boot!

Bao C. Ha bao at hacom.net
Fri Apr 11 01:07:37 CEST 2008


Hi Corey,

Just Linux and FreeBSD.

I don't care about Windows.

Thanks.
Bao

> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Bao C. Ha <bao at hacom.net> wrote:
>
>> Is it safe to assume that ADLO can load grub? Then, from there, I
>> can either run Linux or FreeBSD?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Bao
>
>
> Just curious, what are you looking to dual-boot? Linux *and* FreeBSD, or
> Windows and either Linux or FreeBSD? I don't think coreboot works right
> with
> Windows at the moment. Also, FILO has a built-in pseudo-grub, it looks
> like
> grub and uses a specified menu.lst, it just isn't grub, if that helps.
>
> -Corey
>
>
>> 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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