On 04/16/2014 03:47 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 06:56:57PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> Emulating attributes would be great so you can actually navigate >> bootloader menus. > > I took a look a closer look at this. Some things I found: > > - it looks like the syslinux menu on recent Fedora versions doesn't > work correctly at all in text mode. This can be most easily seen by > disabling CONFIG_VGA_VBE on one of the standard qemu seavgabios > builds - without vbe syslinux wont go into graphics mode and the > same broken text menu is shown. So, this isn't a seavgabios issue > but a fedora and/or syslinux issue. >
?! I would love more details... > - I took a quick look at what happens with the ati vgabios on my > e350m1 if it is forced into a graphics mode (eg, mode 0x12). I see > similar results to what I see with coreboot native seavgabios. So, > it looks like most of our troubles are with the standard vgabios > interface in graphics vs text mode and not something specific to > seavgabios. The non-VESA graphics mode text interface is a bit "special"... and quite frankly broken on a lot of systems. I thought SeaBIOS was doing okay, so there might be a bug here... -hpa _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios