[LinuxBIOS] lxbios bug?
Stefan Reinauer
stepan at coresystems.de
Mon Apr 23 23:03:48 CEST 2007
* Ward Vandewege <ward at gnu.org> [070423 22:53]:
> > No. The wild thing is these settings may be different in each mainboard
> > and many of them are there because of copy & paste.
>
> I see! Hmmm, it would be a nice project to do some code analysis to find out
> which port uses which settings, and document that.
Indeed!
> > > boot_first = HDD
> > > boot_second = Network
> > > boot_third = Floppy
> > > boot_index = 0xe
> > > boot_countdown = 0xfa
> >
> > I think these are used by some payload. Baremetal toolkit? Etherboot?
>
> But not FILO, I take it?
No. I started a patch a while ago, but I never finished it.
> I've started a page on lxbios on the LB wiki to document this:
>
> http://linuxbios.org/Lxbios
Thank you very much!
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