[coreboot] slow load times

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Sun Feb 15 23:39:14 CET 2009


On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:

> The other interesting problem I have is that when I cold boot into SeaBIOS,
> the drives aren't detected.  If I restart the machine after this happens, it
> won't boot fully into Linux until I boot the factory BIOS.  This doesn't
> happen if I stop the boot process by holding reset until the drives spin up
> on cold boot.

Isn't this the classic problem where coreboot/seabios are ready before
the drives are? If so it's a 10 year old problem, which we have fixed
several times in other places. I note kevin now has a fix in :-)

ron




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