On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 3:27 PM, xdrudis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 07:45:18PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: >> >> I think you're going to want SeaBIOS if you need to install Linux from >> a CD. I think filo has cd booting support, but I'd guess standard >> Linux distros wont work out of the box. >> > > Mmmm... hadn't thought of that. Just a crazy idea: > > Is there a payload to load another payload from disk/usb/cd/net instead of > Flash ?. I > imagine the calling interface between coreboot and a payload is > different than that between any of the payloads and the OS, but > maybe it does not need to be so always ? I mean can you keep for > example coreboot+filo+something in the flash where the original BIOS > was, so that you boot fast from flash ordinarily and still use SeaBIOS > (slowly) > without reflashing by loading it from disk once in a while when you > want to try a liveCD or BSD in another partition or whatever ? Or maybe > there's plenty of room > on flash so usually you can keep all payloads you may ever need there > and never bother to load them from disk ?
You could fit gPXE, filo, and SeaBIOS all in the flash pretty easily. Then you would have a few options. I'm curious, what's the difference in boot times between filo and SeaBIOS loading the same kernel from the hard drive? Thanks, Myles -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
