[coreboot] Re: Some problems with graphic display when using coreboot + seabios.

2020-04-19 Thread Ivan Ivanov
> > Personally, given that it's 2020, I'd not bother with legacy-installed > OSes (or SeaBIOS) outside of use with emulation or if a special use > case demands it. Esp given that it's easy enough to migrate Windows > from legacy to UEFI. > UEFI is such an abomination that using SeaBIOS may be the

[coreboot] Re: Some problems with graphic display when using coreboot + seabios.

2020-03-27 Thread Dalao via coreboot
I did a compare of the UFEIPAYLOAD.fd with the one extracted. There are some header starting with .ELF in the extracted one. It's possibly the reason why the extracted one works. The header is possibly added by cbfstool when it build the image. Mar 25, 2020, 00:17 by

[coreboot] Re: Some problems with graphic display when using coreboot + seabios.

2020-03-24 Thread Rafael Send
Hi, Good to know, I actually at one point did the same (extract working Tianocore from coreboot binary), so maybe that's how it worked. Did you figure out why it works when you extract it, but not if you just add the built blob? Rafael On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 11:44 PM Dalao wrote: > > I did

[coreboot] Re: Some problems with graphic display when using coreboot + seabios.

2020-03-24 Thread Dalao via coreboot
> I did have some trouble getting this to work correctly. I believe you must > add it to cbfs with "add-payload" and not just as a regular file. > If that doesn't work let us know, I'll take a look at what exactly I did. Thank you, with the help of people on irc, now I have been able to make it

[coreboot] Re: Some problems with graphic display when using coreboot + seabios.

2020-03-23 Thread Rafael Send
Hi, I did have some trouble getting this to work correctly. I believe you must add it to cbfs with "add-payload" and not just as a regular file. If that doesn't work let us know, I'll take a look at what exactly I did. Good luck, R On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 6:08 AM Dalao wrote: > > FWIW I use

[coreboot] Re: Some problems with graphic display when using coreboot + seabios.

2020-03-21 Thread Dalao via coreboot
> FWIW I use Grub to load either SeaBIOS or Tianocore at boot, defaulting to > Tianocore for this exact problem. Hope that's of some help :) Cool! This is what I want. I have followed this tutorial (https://github.com/librecore-org/librecore/wiki/Chainloading-SeaBIOS-from-a-GRUB-payload) and

[coreboot] Re: Some problems with graphic display when using coreboot + seabios.

2020-03-20 Thread Rafael Send
FWIW I use Grub to load either SeaBIOS or Tianocore at boot, defaulting to Tianocore for this exact problem. Hope that's of some help :) R On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 1:35 PM Dalao via coreboot wrote: > > The Tianocore package which ran on top of SeaBIOS, DuetPkg, was remove > long ago, so that's

[coreboot] Re: Some problems with graphic display when using coreboot + seabios.

2020-03-20 Thread Dalao via coreboot
> The Tianocore package which ran on top of SeaBIOS, DuetPkg, was remove long > ago, so that's not a viable approach (and it was buggy AF anyway). You'd need > to build SeaBIOS as a CSM, package it with Tianocore, and add the appropriate > hooks. Then debug from there It appears building

[coreboot] Re: Some problems with graphic display when using coreboot + seabios.

2020-03-15 Thread Matt DeVillier
On Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 11:02 PM Dalao wrote: > > SeaBIOS is a legacy BIOS implementation, so no it can't boot UEFI boot > media. Likewise, Tianocore is a pure UEFI implementation, and doesn't boot > legacy boot media / legacy installed OSes. There should be a way to use > SeaBIOS as a CSM for

[coreboot] Re: Some problems with graphic display when using coreboot + seabios.

2020-03-14 Thread Dalao via coreboot
> SeaBIOS is a legacy BIOS implementation, so no it can't boot UEFI boot media. > Likewise, Tianocore is a pure UEFI implementation, and doesn't boot legacy > boot media / legacy installed OSes. There should be a way to use SeaBIOS as a > CSM for Tianocore, but currently it's not working / not

[coreboot] Re: Some problems with graphic display when using coreboot + seabios.

2020-03-14 Thread Dalao via coreboot
> add the VGA BIOS. set the PCI IDs correctly. Set coreboot display init to >none, and let SeaBIOS run the VBIOS. Thanks, how to let SeaBIOS run the VBIOS? Do I need to set anything? The VGA BIOS and the PCI IDs are set like this: [*] Add a VGA BIOS image │ (pci8086,0416.rom) VGA BIOS path and

[coreboot] Re: Some problems with graphic display when using coreboot + seabios.

2020-03-14 Thread Matt DeVillier
On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 8:33 PM Dalao via coreboot wrote: > > > I have just corebooted T440p. Then I noticed some graphic display problems... > > Firstly I "Use libgfxinit" with "Legacy VGA text mode", insert a usb disk > with archlinux's latest install image iso. I can see a text mode of >