[coreboot] Need a direction

Joseph Smith joe at settoplinux.org
Thu Nov 27 16:35:03 CET 2008


> Can my bootCD/DVD tell PC to bypass whatever BIOS says and boot from
> CD/DVD ?
> (If you don't have a clue. Who does ?)
> 
Sorry the answer is no. At the point your question is bios has already run
and it is handed off to the bootloader (in coreboot it s called a payload),
the bootloader is what controls which device boots first.

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Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org





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