[coreboot] filo booting cd problem

joe at smittys.pointclark.net joe at smittys.pointclark.net
Wed Mar 26 00:10:25 CET 2008


Quoting Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>:

> joe at smittys.pointclark.net wrote:
>>>> Also, the documentation is a little misleading. If your using filo
>>>> with grub (USE_GRUB = 1), and want to boot to your linux install disk
>>>> you have to do a mixture of grub and filo. Like grub you have to
>>>> append a kernel (and parameters), then an initrd, and give a boot
>>>> command. Like filo you have to give absolute paths.
>>>>
>>> Yes. FILO includes a bunch of GRUB code when USE_GRUB=1. I do not
>>> like GRUB and make sure I always disable USE_GRUB. :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> How does everyone feel about adding something like this to the wiki?
>>
>>
>
> Please! http://www.coreboot.org/FILO is very old and does not reflect
> all details and options of FILO these days.
>

Updated. How does it look?


Thanks - Joe




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