[LinuxBIOS] Wiki - Booting Windows using LinuxBIOS (attempts)

[Augusto Pedroza]

I have created a wiki to post the things I have been trying to do in order
to boot windows. Right now,  I have been trying to use ADLO but we'll also
evaluate different ways.
  I just linked this new wiki in 2 pages:
  www.linuxbios.org/GSoC
  www.linuxbios.org/Documentation   under Other Documentation.

wiki: http://www.linuxbios.org/Booting_Windows_using_LinuxBIOS

Please feel free to suggest anything and thanks for the help up to now.

Regards,

[emanoel xavier]

That's great Augusto,
I've read the wiki and the steps are well described. Actually, as I wrote
here, I've done these same steps (difference: instead of LILO I used GRUB)
and I achieved the same results you did. I'll continue reading about
possible solutions, if I get something I'll let you know.

On 5/23/07, Augusto Pedroza  wrote:
> I have created a wiki to post the things I have been trying to do in order
> to boot windows. Right now,  I have been trying to use ADLO but we'll also
> evaluate different ways.
>   I just linked this new wiki in 2 pages:
>   www.linuxbios.org/GSoC
>   www.linuxbios.org/Documentation   under Other Documentation.
>
> wiki: http://www.linuxbios.org/Booting_Windows_using_LinuxBIOS
>
> Please feel free to suggest anything and thanks for the help up to now.
> Regards,
> Augusto Pedroza
>
> linuxbios mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios

[Stefan Reinauer]

* emanoel xavier  [070523 15:17]:
> I've done these same steps (difference: instead of LILO I used GRUB) and I
> achieved the same results you did. I'll continue reading about possible
> solutions, if I get something I'll let you know.

What I do not understand: Why are you using LILO or GRUB at all to boot
Windows?

Stefan

[Augusto Pedroza]

On 5/23/07, Stefan Reinauer  wrote:
> emanoel xavier  [070523 15:17]:
> > I've done these same steps (difference: instead of LILO I used GRUB) and
>
> I
> > achieved the same results you did. I'll continue reading about possible
> > solutions, if I get something I'll let you know.
>
> What I do not understand: Why are you using LILO or GRUB at all to boot
> Windows?

We feel it is important to reproduce the steps used in the paper,
http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/tech/freenix03/agnew/agnew_html/index....
in a emulator. Since LILO was used to boot win 2000 and the paper also
stated that grub worked fine.
   Reading a little more ADLO's status file I found this:
        STATUS

==========================================
==========================================

LILO
    fully supported

==========================================
GRUB
    fully supported

notes
        int15/eAX=00C0 - not supported
        int15/Eax=5300 - not supported
        int 13 ; fn 41 -> dev 81
        int 13 ; fn 08 -> dev 81
 ==========================================

In spite of that I am also working on a version that has windows boot
loader, NTLDR. I'm not having much success, the error seems to be very
similar to the one I get when I use GRUB.

Stefan
>

[Peter Stuge]

On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:59:33PM -0300, Augusto Pedroza wrote:
> We feel it is important to reproduce the steps used in the paper,
> http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/tech/freenix03/agnew/agnew_html/
> in a emulator.

I think this is a good plan.

One thing you could try is to start up the Windows XP installer
program. That may be simpler and useful as a start. (The installer
does actually run parts of the normal NT system so it could be
useful to learn about it.)

//Peter

[Darmawan Salihun]

Hi Augusto,

On 5/23/07, Augusto Pedroza  wrote:
> In spite of that I am also working on a version that has windows boot
> loader, NTLDR. I'm not having much success, the error seems to be very
> similar to the one I get when I use GRUB.

If you feel you need more info about NTLDR, check out the post in the
following URL:
http://www.reteam.org/board/showthread.php?t=323&highlight=NTLDR

Also, read the NTFS documentation (NTFS-doc) at:
http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/19/37/

I think it should speed you up ;-)

-- Darmawan Salihun a.k.a Pinczakko
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