[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/7] vgabios improvements
Gerd Hoffmann
kraxel at redhat.com
Tue Apr 15 07:52:47 CEST 2014
Hi,
> Oddly, I can't boot from a hard drive (-hda) when I use the
> coreboot/seabios I built though. It keeps failing at "Booting from
> Hard Disk...".
I see that with my builds too, but only with -vga std (where coreboot
vgabios is used). Same bios image with -vga cirrus works fine. So it
seems this is triggered by the coreboot vgabios too.
> > (2) color attributes don't work correctly. Result is that you can't
> > figure which line in your boot menu is highlighted. Visible in
> > Fedora live isos (which use isolinux as boot loader) I think.
>
> This isn't surprising as the vgabios handling of attributes in text
> mode is different from the handling in graphics mode. It may be
> possible to tweak seavgabios so it tries to emulate the text mode
> attr handling.
Ok, so simply not implemented.
cheers,
Gerd
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