[LinuxBIOS] Booting Windows XP / Vista - Google Summer of Code

[Augusto Pedroza]

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,

[Peter Stuge]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 10:31:42AM -0300, Augusto Pedroza wrote:
> I would appreciate any suggestions, tools you guys think that would
> be useful.

There was discussion on the mailing list about a MacBook bootloader
that did good stuff regarding XP IIRC. Look back a few months.

Let me know if you can't find the messages and I'll try to search a
bit.

//Peter

[Augusto Pedroza]

I am trying to find that, no success up to now but thanks for the
suggestion.

On 4/28/07, Peter Stuge  wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 10:31:42AM -0300, Augusto Pedroza wrote:
> > I would appreciate any suggestions, tools you guys think that would
> > be useful.
>
> There was discussion on the mailing list about a MacBook bootloader
> that did good stuff regarding XP IIRC. Look back a few months.
>
> Let me know if you can't find the messages and I'll try to search a
> bit.
>
> //Peter

[Peter Stuge]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 07:55:56AM -0300, Augusto Pedroza wrote:
> I am trying to find that, no success up to now but thanks for the
> suggestion.

http://daemons.net/~clay/index.php/2006/03/15/dual-booting-windows-xp-and-ma...
http://daemons.net/~clay/OSXP/

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bios/15678
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bios/18671

//Peter