Re: Bug#812236: CD-Image does not boot with Libreboot/GRUB
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 01:08:41PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
>On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 13:06 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 23:48 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>
>> Getting a bit OT for the bug.
>>
>> > In fact, I've seen this exact problem myself on a Libreboot machine
>> > when trying to install Jessie a few weeks back. What I did in the end
>> > was drop to a grub command prompt and start the installer by hand that
>> > way. It looks like a (design?) bug that Libreboot won't do normal boot
>> > sector booting like a conventional BIOS.
>>
>> I think for that case you want (or need) to use seabios as your coreboot
>> payload, since it provides the necessary "conventional BIOS" part of the
>> puzzle.
>
>I should say, I've no personal experience of doing so, but I've seen people
>trying it on the seabios devel list which I happen to follow for other
>reasons.
ACK. :-)
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