hi Mason,
I'm a bit confused here - you're not going to be able to boot any OS which requires legacy BIOS using my MrChromebox (UEFI) firmware images. But even if you could, older OSes like Windows XP/7 don't have drivers to support the newer hardware platform used on your Chromebook, to say nothing for the peripherals like the touchpad which require custom drivers that simply don't exist for older versions of Windows.
You're also unlikely to be able to run WinXP/7 even using a custom coreboot+SeaBIOS firmware image, given that older versions of Windows were pretty bad about following the ACPI spec, and/or required lots of firmware workarounds for Windows quirks. And even if you could boot, you're going to run into the driver issues as mentioned above.
Virtual machines exist for a reason, and running WinXP/7 in a VM from a Linux host is going to be the best and easiest solution here.
cheers, Matt / MrChromebox
On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 1:37 PM Peter Stuge peter@stuge.se wrote:
Mason McAlister wrote:
any idea when Legacy OS/BIOS support is coming to Coreboot?
To coreboot itself probably never but you can use SeaBIOS as payload to get a BIOS environment that will boot Windows, if the ACPI tables created/delivered by coreboot for the mainboard are correct.
it'd just be cool if i could get windows XP or windows 7 on a chromebook.
Should work as long as ACPI tables are correct, I would expect Chromebooks to have fairly good ones.
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