[coreboot] seabios change to boot from last boot device for gPXE or other option rom booting

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Fri Mar 13 00:07:29 CET 2009


On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 08:08:30AM -0700, Joe Julian wrote:
> Kevin O'Connor wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 09:15:01AM -0700, Joe Julian wrote:
>>> -        IPL.bootorder = 0x00000231;
>>> +        IPL.bootorder = 0x0000231f;
>> You want:
>>         IPL.bootorder = 0x00002314;
>>
>> which will set the default order to option rom (BEV), floppy, cdrom,
>> and then hard drive.
> Ah yes, I see. It threw me off because the boot menu showed all my hard  
> drives and put gPXE as item 6.

Yeah - the internal BCV/BEV stuff is complicated, but it needs to be
done that way for correct operation.  The menu is intended to simlify
things, so that a casual user doesn't need to know the difference
between a BCV/BEV/CDROM/etc.

-Kevin




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