Hi, Thanks for the encouragement. I already "practised" building both coreboot and SeaBIOS separately, albeit with no modifications. I'm not a software engineer so it'll be like taking shots in the dark, but I'll see what I can come up with.
Cheers, R Mike Banon <mikeb...@gmail.com> schrieb am Fr., 12. Apr. 2019, 22:52: > Hi Rafael, > > I believe that, with a little more effort, this guy would have > succeeded at adding a new floppy format. A bit later I'm going to > extend KolibriOS floppy with more cool stuff, and it could go from > 1.44MB to beyond 2.88MB even with the compression is used (so wouldn't > fit even into the largest currently supported floppy). However I'm not > afraid and think it could be done easily. And you could quickly debug > it using QEMU, maybe he was trying it only at real hardware and this > was time consuming... Just make a special coreboot+SeaBIOS build for > QEMU and add a floppy there. > > Best regards, > Mike Banon > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 9:39 PM Rafael Send <flyingfishfin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I'm working on stuffing a bootable Linux distro into coreboot. In QEMU > I already succeded by using coreboot's built-in kernel loading mechanism, > but that's without SeaBIOS. > > > > I'd love to have it as a SeaBIOS payload so I can also boot other > things, but I guess I'd have to create a custom-sized floppy image for this > or figure out how to create an ELF payload out of a Linux kernel (I'm open > to either, but I wasn't able to find any documentation on the ELF method). > > > > The guy who put Win 3.1 in coreboot attempted the floppy method, but > according to his article he did not find success with this method due to > unknown and complex issues in the floppy-side logic of SeaBIOS. > > > > So, I'm making the question explicit: What would it take to support > custom-sized floppy images? In particular, I'm thinking of a 16MB device... > > > > Alternatively, would it be possible to create an ELF file out of a Linux > kernel+initrd / bootable image? > > > > Cheers, > > Rafael > > _______________________________________________ > > SeaBIOS mailing list -- seabios@seabios.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to seabios-le...@seabios.org >
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