Re: [SeaBIOS] Problems booting legacy OSes on Chromebook Pixel 2015 - cbmem output

2015-10-06 Thread John Lewis
If I disable coreboot framebuffer support in SeaBIOS and then use the VGABIOS from the stock ROM in RW_LEGACY, I don't get any display from SeaBIOS on Broadwell. If I do the same with a Haswell Chromebook, the display works. In the former case, SeaBIOS appears to find and load the VGABIOS,

Re: [SeaBIOS] Problems booting legacy OSes on Chromebook Pixel 2015 - cbmem output

2015-10-06 Thread John Lewis
On 2015-10-06 02:02, Kevin O'Connor wrote: On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 05:04:09PM +0100, edward wandasiewicz wrote: Following on from this post - http://seabios.seabios.narkive.com/UAt3jVij I was having the exactly the same problem. So to summarize, you can boot Linux on Samus, but can not

Re: [SeaBIOS] Problems booting legacy OSes on Chromebook Pixel 2015 - cbmem output

2015-10-06 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 04:10:05PM +0100, John Lewis wrote: > > > >>If I disable coreboot framebuffer support in SeaBIOS and then use the > >>VGABIOS from the stock ROM in RW_LEGACY, I don't get any display from > >>SeaBIOS on Broadwell. > >> > >>If I do the same with a Haswell Chromebook, the

Re: [SeaBIOS] Problems booting legacy OSes on Chromebook Pixel 2015 - cbmem output

2015-10-06 Thread edward wandasiewicz
On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:53 PM, John Lewis wrote: > > > I'm not absolutely sure how old it is, but I don't think it's any older than > 2 or 3 weeks, since that was the last time I really had a bash at getting > this working properly, and I finished up by putting the cbvga

Re: [SeaBIOS] Problems booting legacy OSes on Chromebook Pixel 2015 - cbmem output

2015-10-05 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 05:04:09PM +0100, edward wandasiewicz wrote: > Following on from this post - http://seabios.seabios.narkive.com/UAt3jVij > > I was having the exactly the same problem. So to summarize, you can boot Linux on Samus, but can not boot any *BSD? Both Linux and the BSDs do

Re: [SeaBIOS] Problems booting legacy OSes on Chromebook Pixel 2015

2015-04-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Charles, dear Kevin, Am Donnerstag, den 23.04.2015, 08:11 -0400 schrieb Kevin O'Connor: On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 07:26:27PM -0500, Charles Howell wrote: […] Another option would be to try booting a Linux image - access to the cbmem console would be helpful even if booting Linux is not

Re: [SeaBIOS] Problems booting legacy OSes on Chromebook Pixel 2015

2015-04-23 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 07:26:27PM -0500, Charles Howell wrote: (Apologies if this is the wrong list, but I'm not sure where else to post.) I'm attempting to boot FreeBSD 10.1 (amd64) on a new Chromebook Pixel (via a USB CD) and it hangs as soon as the kernel is loaded into memory. I'd

Re: [SeaBIOS] Problems booting legacy OSes on Chromebook Pixel 2015

2015-04-22 Thread Charles Howell
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 7:26 PM, I wrote: I'm attempting to boot FreeBSD 10.1 (amd64) on a new Chromebook Pixel (via a USB CD) and it hangs as soon as the kernel is loaded into memory. To eliminate the BSDs as the source of the problem, I just tried booting an ISO of Memtest86 (which boots