On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:37:52AM -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote: >On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 01:54:04AM -0900, Roger wrote: >> And still getting better here. >> >> I've reset some Seabios config.h options to defaults and disabled FLOPPY >> options. > >The floppy options have no impact on seabios when in coreboot mode. >What you're seeing here is likely random failures. You should try >running the memtest program.
Yup. Figured-out, the user is required to press "F12" else Seabios will try to load a floppy image as defined in milliseconds within config.h. If Seabios doesn't find a floppy image or boot image, it will then reload coreboot/reboot as defined in milliseconds within config.h. (This I find nuts, Seabios infinitely reloading coreboot over & over again. Is this correct? Great stress testing though as I can see additional reloads fail sometime over time due to raminit issues.) I prefer Seabios to sit and wait forever (an unlimited amount of time). Also, if I do get things going correctly, would prefer Seabios just go ahead and boot the bootable drive partition (or main boot record... with grub/lilo installed). If anything, a slight pause might be essential in case a user does have a floppy image installed or chooses network, usb, etc. -- Roger http://rogerx.freeshell.org/ -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
