[SeaBIOS] VGA Option ROM not set up correctly when loaded by coreboot and not SeaBIOS

[Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:13:32 +0100
Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2013/3/18 Paul Menzel <paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net>:
> > Dear SeaBIOS,
> >
> >
> > using the AMD/ATI based ASRock E350M1 [1] with coreboot and SeaBIOS
> > 1.7.2.1 as a payload and GRUB 2 (1.99-27 from Debian Sid/unstable)
> > on the hard drive, letting coreboot load the VGA Option ROM and
> > disabling »Option ROMs« in the menu »BIOS interfaces«
> >
> >             config OPTIONROMS
> >                 bool "Option ROMS"
> >                 default y # I set it to n.
> >                 help
> >                     Support finding and running option roms during
> > POST.
> >
> > I only see »AMD Wrestler …« printed to the screen (from the VGA
> > Option ROM loaded by coreboot I guess) and I neither see the
> > SeaBIOS header(?) with version nor the bootmenu. GRUB 2 does not
> > show its (terminal) menu either and just shows funny, colorful
> > characters covering the whole screen.
> >
> 
> http://www.coreboot.org/SeaBIOS#coreboot - do not load the vga option
> rom in coreboot - do it in seabios.
Maybe it's an issue in coreboot instead?
does it do the same thing with another payload? like grub2 directly
for instance ?

Denis.