On 22/03/2017, Nico Huber <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22.03.2017 17:03, Sam Kuper wrote: >> -- Choose "GRUB2" as payload. > You didn't select any option to initialize the display. [...] >> - After about 10 minutes, the fan spins up for a few seconds, then >> spins back down. This repeats roughly every 10 minutes. > I guess, you are at the GRUB console here, just without display. [...] > The only thing that is skipped is the display initialization. SeaBIOS > does a legacy boot and detects the installed GRUB, runs it etc... [...]
Interesting. A few days ago, I tried running Coreboot on the X201 with a SeaBIOS payload and no SSD installed. IIRC, SeaBIOS did provide a display at that point. But maybe I am misremembering, and the SeaBIOS display was actually something I only saw in QEMU. That aside (which on reflection probably *was* in QEMU), your explanation makes perfect sense :) I hadn't realised that Coreboot's default would be *not* to initialise a display. > The GRUB payload, by default, doesn't have any configuration file and > will wait at the prompt (no matter if the disk is encrypted or not). Good to have this confirmed. From a GRUB prompt, I hope I will be able to find and boot the Debian installation. >> In any case, how would more >> experienced Corebooters suggest I proceed? > > Easiest option seems to be to select CONFIG_MAINBOARD_DO_NATIVE_VGA_INIT > > Hope that helps, Very much so; will try it ASAP. Thank you! -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] https://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
