[coreboot] SeaBIOS booting

[Myles Watson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin O'Connor [mailto:kevin at koconnor.net]
> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 12:41 AM
> To: Myles Watson
> Cc: Coreboot
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] SeaBIOS booting
> 
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 04:27:51PM -0600, Myles Watson wrote:
> > Kevin,
> >
> > I didn't have my windows CD handy, so I tried several Linux install
> > CDs, but I can't get them to boot on my s2892.  They boot fine in qemu
> > with SeaBIOS.
> 
> Okay - thanks for trying.
> 
> > Here's the log:
> 
> I don't see anything unusual in the log.  Did all the OSes die in the
> same way?  Did anything come up on the vga screen?  What OSes did you
> try?

I tried the Ultimate Boot CD, a Fedora CD, and a CD I'd made that just runs
grub.

> 
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 03:54:11PM -0600, Myles Watson wrote:
> > I'm not sure if it's buildrom's fault or SeaBIOS's, but the build
> > fails for me with this error:
> >
> > make[1]: P: Command not found
> >
> > It's actually a symptom that $(CPP) isn't being set.  When I add these
> > lines in SeaBIOS's Makefile, it goes away.
> >
> > ifeq ($(CPP),)
> > CPP=$(CC) -E
> > endif
> 
> That's very odd.  What distro did you try to build on?

Fedora 7. It might be buildrom's problem, since CPP is defined when I
checked in the main Makefile.  I'll have to look around for why it's getting
undefined.

Thanks,
Myles

> -Kevin