Re: [LinuxBIOS] ADLO on a real machine

[Augusto Pedroza]

This is great,
  I'd like to help with ADLO, could give me some more details when you try
to boot using ADLO?

Thanks,
  Augusto Pedroza

On 9/14/07, Stefan Reinauer  wrote:
> Myles Watson wrote:
> > With some fiddling I booted into the Windows install CD and installed
> > Windows XP on a hard drive.  It took fiddling because the BIOS is so old
> > that it doesn't conform to the ATA-3 specifications.
> >
> > I haven't been able to boot using a hard drive from ADLO yet because it
> > doesn't recognize my hard drives (same age related problems of the Bochs
> > BIOS.)
> >
> > I've looked at porting the FILO drivers into the Bochs BIOS, but it
>
> doesn't
> > appear trivial.
> >
> > Any questions, suggestions, or comments besides "Why would you want to
>
> do
> > this?"
>
> Hmm. First off, this is pretty cool. Which version of Windows? :-)
>
> Does your hard disk controller have an option rom? P-ATA? S-ATA? SCSI?
>
> It might make sense to have the controller's option rom executed by ADLO
> so it can install an int13 hook.
>
> Have you been able to use FILO?
>
> Stefan