[coreboot] the seabios reboot in the post process

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Tue Mar 10 01:09:13 CET 2009


On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 01:54:56AM +0000, wei yang wrote:
> 
> Hi, Kevin:
>    Your patch does work for my issue. 
>    I think it is a bug in the seabios, since some chipset will use
>    the bit 7 on the 0x70. But the current Seabios doesn't handle
>    this scenario.  Thanks your response. :).

Thanks.

The latest SeaBIOS git will keep the high bit set on 0x70 writes.

> by they way, here I got another question when seabios tring to boot
> through the CDROM.  I have connected a SATA DVD device within Fedora
> 10 install CD to the board, which can be found when the payload is
> FILO.  When I use the Seabios, it does invoke the Handle 18 and
> return the error code :00000002.  The code means "cd rom not found"
> after I checked the code in the cdrom.c.  I am wandering why it will
> happen? do you have some comments?

I'll need to see the log.  It looks like SeaBIOS didn't find your
cdrom.

-Kevin




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