On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 04:02:09PM -0900, Roger wrote: > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:37:52AM -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > >On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 01:54:04AM -0900, Roger wrote: > >> And still getting better here. > >> > >> I've reset some Seabios config.h options to defaults and disabled FLOPPY > >> options. > > > >The floppy options have no impact on seabios when in coreboot mode. > >What you're seeing here is likely random failures. You should try > >running the memtest program. > > Yup. Figured-out, the user is required to press "F12" else Seabios will try > to > load a floppy image as defined in milliseconds within config.h.
Hrmm - Seabios wont load from floppy under coreboot. The floppy hardware support is disabled when on coreboot. The messages you are seeing are harmless. > If Seabios doesn't find a floppy image or boot image, it will then reload > coreboot/reboot as defined in milliseconds within config.h. (This I find > nuts, > Seabios infinitely reloading coreboot over & over again. Is this correct? > Great stress testing though as I can see additional reloads fail sometime over > time due to raminit issues.) > > I prefer Seabios to sit and wait forever (an unlimited amount of time). > > Also, if I do get things going correctly, would prefer Seabios just go ahead > and boot the bootable drive partition (or main boot record... with grub/lilo > installed). If anything, a slight pause might be essential in case a user > does > have a floppy image installed or chooses network, usb, etc. If SeaBIOS fails to find a boot method, it will wait infinitely. You're seeing an unrelated failure here. -Kevin -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
