[coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Thu May 14 15:19:33 CEST 2009


On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:23:52PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> > which is correct (the last two digits are 00).
> 
> Huh:
> 
> $ v ../payloads/sgabios.bin 
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root src 3169 2009-04-29 13:56 ../payloads/sgabios.bin*
> $ tools/checksum.py <../payloads/sgabios.bin 
> sum=50b76

Heh - sgabios isn't properly checksumming.  It was just dumb luck that
my binary summed to zero.

This is a hack, but you can use seabios' rom building tool to make it
work:

tools/buildrom.py ../payloads/sgabios.bin sgabios-cksum.bin

Someone should follow up with google on this..

-Kevin




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