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Re: grub as option rom
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko |
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Re: grub as option rom |
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Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:58:43 +0200 |
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On 16.09.2013 23:15, Jan Reiss wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> as more and more mainboards become dual bios compatible and are
> flashable online via flashrom.
> i thought it might be a good idea if grub could be compiled as option
> rom to be included into the standard bios firmware.
> Does anyone have an idea how to achive this, i found plop as a
> bootmanager which is capable to be installed as option rom, so i
> thought maybe grub is able to do this too?
>
This was attempted by Robert Milan in the past. While this does work,
option roms are very limited in size (typically few KiBs for non-VGA
option roms) which limits usefullness a lot
You can hwever use GRUB as coreboot payload.
> Best Regards from GER,
> JR
>
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