On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:13:04PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:37:56PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:27:35AM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > > > Now - the reason why I wanted to use sgabios, was to get the seabios > > > console > > > output on serial. > > > > > > As you can see in the logs, sgabios is loaded too late to be much use for > > > that (after the disk detection, and after seabios prints 'Press F12 for > > > boot > > > menu'). > > > > > > If sgabios is the way to get seabios to copy console to serial, would it > > > be > > > possible to load the sgabios option rom (much) earlier? > > > > Sgabios isn't a PnP rom, and it therefore doesn't get called before > > the boot menu. You can try the patch to sgabios below - I don't know > > how reliable it will be. > > That worked! However, the serial bug is apparently back - grub's printing > 'Press any key to continue' very very slowly, and ignoring serial console > input while that is happening. See boot log at:
Disregard that. It works perfectly both with CONFIG_DEBUG_SERIAL on or off. I was not using the seabios payload I thought I was. Nathan - any chance that patch could be applied to sgabios? Thanks!! Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <w...@fsf.org> Free Software Foundation - Senior Systems Administrator -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot