On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:27:35PM +0200, xdrudis 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 ?.
It's probably easier to just use SeaBIOS. >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) SeaBIOS is not slow - it is smaller than filo (both compressed and uncompressed) and loads and initializes faster than filo. During one of my tests, SeaBIOS was 1.5 seconds faster to the boot menu than filo. -Kevin -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
