Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
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The file adding the news is named gnuboot-december-2023.md instead of gnuboot-0.1-rc1.md as the later is understood as a translation in the '1-rc1' lang. Renaming the file to gnuboot-0.1-rc1.en.md instead makes untitled detect the lang correctly but then it assumes this is a translation and adds a broken link for "English" on the new page. For now the older Libreboot news were kept as this shows the history of the project and since GNU Boot is a continuation of the Libreboot project it makes sense to also keep them. The CSS also needed to be separated from the template because otherwise the generated news page would be incomplete and miss all what comes before the CSS like '<!DOCTYPE html>' for instance. Finally x-reviewed was changed into x-unreviewed because we can't set x-reviewed for the news, so the only way to remove the banner for the individual news is to default to reviewed (and to mark all unreviewed files as such). As for the Untitled patch it is needed to make the news page work. Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org> Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
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It is highly recommended that you use the SeaBIOS payload. ROM images are available in the latest Libreboot release, which start with the SeaBIOS payload.
The ROM images with GNU GRUB also have SeaBIOS available in the boot menu.
GNU GRUB, when compiled as a coreboot payload, runs on bare metal and it can
boot any other coreboot payload if you use the chainloader command.
The way to use SeaBIOS is fairly self-explanatory. SeaBIOS functions the way you would expect on a typical computer. Libreboot currently lacks any sort of documentation for SeaBIOS, but you can refer to their website: https://seabios.org/SeaBIOS
SeaBIOS is especially recommended if you're doing an encrypted installation.
The benefit to using SeaBIOS is that it's basically more reliable. For example, ZFS support is less reliable in GRUB, but a FreeBSD system booted in SeaBIOS would work just fine because you'd be using FreeBSD's own bootloader in that instance.
GNU GRUB payload
GRUB can directly boot many BSD kernels, but support for this is quite unreliable compared to its support for booting Linux kernels. However, you can use GRUB.
When you use GNU GRUB directly, in this way, the various BSD bootloaders are bypassed entirely.
We have separate pages for each BSD system: