From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: grub as option rom
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:58:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <523B3B53.9030204@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <523774F1.2050203@jan-reiss.de>
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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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2013-09-16 21:15 grub as option rom Jan Reiss
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