[LinuxBIOS] linuxbios + xf86-video-unichrome: no VGA BIOS needed.

Alan Carvalho de Assis acassis at gmail.com
Sat Mar 17 15:55:26 CET 2007


Hi Luc,

2007/3/17, Luc Verhaegen. <libv at skynet.be>:
> Are you saying there that, for the likes of filo, grub, etherboot, etc
> will be forced to set up a full VGA console themselves? Or are you for
> forcing everybody to use a serial console to:
> * instruct the bootloader on what to do, what kernel to load from where.
> * manually fsck your root filesystem after a bad reboot.
> * or in the most insane case: alter your X setup when X gives up?
>
I think you don't understood correctly. LinuxBIOS will still starting
VGA card, only the log output will no more be showed on video, only on
serial or usb.

Cheers,

Alan




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