Hi there, I am very excited for having been selected for GSoC with such a challenging project. My project consists of booting windows Xp /Vista on LinuxBIOS. Right now, I have the following responsibilities: 1. Evaluating which of the following projects will best fit our needs
- using a dedicated LinuxBIOS loader (ie. adapting ReactOShttp://www.reactos.org/FREELDR) - booting Windows on top of Linux using kexechttp://www.xmission.com/%7Eebiederm/files/kexec/README /kboot http://kboot.sourceforge.net/ - fixing ADLO http://linuxbios.org/ADLO so that it boots Vista/XP and removing the mainboard dependencies in it's code.
2. I have been figuring out what are the main differences in between Windows XP and Vista booting process.
I already got some papers by Ron Minnich, Adam Sulmicki ( http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/winint/index2.html) and Boot Configuration Data in Windows Vista by Microsoft (* http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/bcd.mspx* ). I would appreciate any suggestions, tools you guys think that would be useful.
Thanks a lot and hope to have a great summer,