FILO
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Documentation is now handled by the same processes we use for code: Add something to the Documentation/ directory in the coreboot repo, and it will be rendered to https://doc.coreboot.org/. Contributions welcome!
What is FILO
Filo is a bootloader which loads boot images from local filesystem, without help from legacy BIOS services.
Expected usage is to flash it into the BIOS ROM together with LinuxBIOS.
FEATURES
- Supported boot devices: IDE hard disk and CD-ROM, and system memory (ROM)
- Supported filesystems: ext2, fat, jfs, minix, reiserfs, xfs, and iso9660
- Supported image formats: ELF and [b]zImage (a.k.a. /vmlinuz)
- Supports boot disk image of El Torito bootable CD-ROM
- Supports loading image from raw device with user-specified offset
- Console on VGA + keyboard, serial port, or both
- Line editing with ^H, ^W and ^U keys to type arbitrary filename to boot
- Full support for the ELF Boot Proposal (where is it btw, Eric?)
- Auxiliary tool to compute checksum of ELF boot images
- Full 32-bit code, no BIOS calls
Additional Information
Filo on AMD64 Filo on the Arima Hdama