How to test coreboot

[bbsbill]

Can i load coreboot on DOS to test it? Is it ok??

I don't  want to write it to my mainboard. It's Dangerous.

[Patrick Georgi]

Am Sonntag, den 24.07.2011, 15:52 +0800 schrieb bbsbill:
> Can i load coreboot on DOS to test it? Is it ok??
> I don't  want to write it to my mainboard. It's Dangerous.

This won't work. coreboot initializes parts of the hardware that are
already fully initialized when DOS is running - like the RAM controller.

If you only want to test coreboot (but don't mind what hardware it runs
on), you can try the emulation/qemu-x86 target. This runs in the QEmu
system emulator, which is a good option to learn more about coreboot.
However, it doesn't help testing coreboot for any specific mainboard.

Patrick

[Anders Jenbo]

Coreboot is not an application, corboot talks directly to hardware and control power sequences an registre set up, so no. You should however be able to run it in a computer emulator like qemu, but it will not show you if it will work for your system as emulators use general hardware and not the real hardware.

Oh and what are you doing with dos in this day and age.

-Anders