On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 13:06 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 23:48 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Getting a bit OT for the bug. > > > In fact, I've seen this exact problem myself on a Libreboot machine > > when trying to install Jessie a few weeks back. What I did in the end > > was drop to a grub command prompt and start the installer by hand that > > way. It looks like a (design?) bug that Libreboot won't do normal boot > > sector booting like a conventional BIOS. > > I think for that case you want (or need) to use seabios as your coreboot > payload, since it provides the necessary "conventional BIOS" part of the > puzzle.
I should say, I've no personal experience of doing so, but I've seen people trying it on the seabios devel list which I happen to follow for other reasons. Ian.
