On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 08:40:16PM -0600, Myles Watson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Kevin O'Connor <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 09:18:45PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > >> So - here's the problem with the sgabios approach. Unless I'm > >> misunderstanding how this works, using sgabios means that I'd have > >> to disable serial in any payload started from grub, as well? > > > > It seems to work fine under qemu. In any case, a seabios > > implementation would have the same issues as sgabios - it would need > > to do exactly what sgabios does. > > > >> > > > > serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1 > >> > > > > terminal --timeout=5 serial console > > > > I've reproduced this problem under qemu. If I boot > > qemu/coreboot/seabios/grub, then grub wont use the serial console. > > However, if I boot qemu/seabios/grub, then grub seems to work fine. > > The above is true regardless of whether SeaBIOS has serial port > > debugging on or off. I guess coreboot is initialzing the serial port > > in some way that grub doesn't like.
I'm seeing the exact same issue on m57sli (which is also mcp55 based, however). Has anyone else tried coreboot + SeaBIOS + grub with serial? Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <[email protected]> Free Software Foundation - Senior Systems Administrator -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

