[coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub
Kevin O'Connor
kevin at koconnor.net
Fri May 22 03:19:04 CEST 2009
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 01:03:30PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:13:04PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> > That worked!
Great!
> OK, I can now get to the boot menu, which is great.
>
> Ideally though, all output starting from 'Starting Seabios' would end up on
> serial as well as console. So, drive detection, gpxe being loaded, any other
> option roms being loaded.
>
> Is that at all possible? Perhaps seabios could treat an optionrom with name
> genroms/sgabios.rom as special and load it before all other option roms?
Sure - for example, SeaBIOS could load all roms in "vgaroms/" during
the vga init phase. This gets somewhat to the point Myles raised
earlier about option rom ordering - I'm not sure what the best thing
to do is.
-Kevin
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