[SeaBIOS] Sun Ultra 40 M2 - VGA Card Option Rom not detected

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Thu May 7 21:43:32 CEST 2015


On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 12:29:47PM -0700, Nick wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> Thanks for taking a look and thanks for your suggestions.
> 
> So, SeaBIOS is not designed to detect and run a VGA option rom from a PCIe
> video card? I was hoping that I could get SeaBIOS to act similar to the
> vendor BIOS and not have to use a serial based console.

SeaBIOS can use VGA on PCIe cards - the problem appears to be that
SeaBIOS isn't scanning all the PCI buses on the machine.  Try setting
extra-pci-roots as described previously.

> Any ideas on SeaBIOS not booting from hard disks or USB storage devices?

I suspect the problem with USB storage is really just a result of VGA
not working and the behavior of third-party bootloaders when a vgabios
isn't found.  See my previous email.

-Kevin



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