[coreboot] FILO bug disk not seen at ata-0 (Doesn't try to detect on ATA only SIL3114)

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Wed May 19 01:45:18 CEST 2010


On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:13:34AM +0200, Joop Boonen wrote:
> All,
> 
> I've also tested with seabios. This looked fine.
> 
> As I'm using Linux I don't prefer to use a BIOS like SEABIOS but i prefer
> to use something mean and lean line FILO or GRUB2 (As Linux doesn't need
> BIOS).
> 
> The things that are important to me are e few things:
> 1) Boot Linux
> 2) Be able to install Linux from a CD

I think you're going to want SeaBIOS if you need to install Linux from
a CD.  I think filo has cd booting support, but I'd guess standard
Linux distros wont work out of the box.

-Kevin




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