[coreboot] filo booting cd problem

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Tue Mar 25 19:54:32 CET 2008


joe at smittys.pointclark.net wrote:
>>> Also, the documentation is a little misleading. If your using filo
>>> with grub (USE_GRUB = 1), and want to boot to your linux install disk
>>> you have to do a mixture of grub and filo. Like grub you have to
>>> append a kernel (and parameters), then an initrd, and give a boot
>>> command. Like filo you have to give absolute paths.
>>>       
>> Yes. FILO includes a bunch of GRUB code when USE_GRUB=1. I do not
>> like GRUB and make sure I always disable USE_GRUB. :)
>>
>>
>>     
> How does everyone feel about adding something like this to the wiki?
>
>   

Please! http://www.coreboot.org/FILO is very old and does not reflect
all details and options of FILO these days.

Stefan





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