We boot Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 (build 7000)

[Rudolf Marek]

Hello,

I'm pleased to announce that SeaBIOS and Coreboot can boot (and install) Windows 
7 build 7000, which was released as public beta yesterday.

There is also some video taken by mine Cannon G7 camera.

http://media.avc-cvut.cz/avc_vlastni_tvorba/2009/ruik/w7-coreboot/

Test platform: Asus M2V-MX SE, 512MB RAM, AMD Sempron on 2GHz.

Moreover I was able to boot/install there Windows Vista (Bussines, 64bit) and 
Windows XP.

Most patches are in, there is just one missing which I indicated in the previous 
email, http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2008-December/043493.html

Kevin, can we sort this out?

Rudolf

We boot Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 (build 7000)

[Peter Stuge]

Rudolf Marek wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce that SeaBIOS and Coreboot can boot (and
> install) Windows 7 build 7000, which was released as public beta
> yesterday.

Very cool!

I've added a news entry and the videos to the wiki video page.

//Peter

[ron minnich]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Peter Stuge  wrote:
> Rudolf Marek wrote:
> > I'm pleased to announce that SeaBIOS and Coreboot can boot (and
> > install) Windows 7 build 7000, which was released as public beta
> > yesterday.
>
> Very cool!
>
> I've added a news entry and the videos to the wiki video page.

I wonder if we could get a "windows 7 certified" seal or some such to
put on the wiki?

ron

We boot Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 (build 7000)

[Rudolf Marek]

> I wonder if we could get a "windows 7 certified" seal or some such to
> put on the wiki?

Hi, its bit more complicated, check:

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winlogo/hwrequirements.mspx

(check the snapshot)

Rudolf

We boot Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 (build 7000)

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 11.01.2009 20:01, Rudolf Marek wrote:
> > I wonder if we could get a "windows 7 certified" seal or some such to
> > put on the wiki?
>
> Hi, its bit more complicated, check:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winlogo/hwrequirements.mspx
>
> (check the snapshot)

I think the only requirement that's a bit difficult (conceptually, not
code-wise) right now on the coreboot side (without multiple payloads) is
SYSFUND-0071 sub-item "Provide a mechanism to enable and disable
user-accessible USB ports during POST (enabled by default)."
Some other requirements (SYSFUND-0049,SYSFUND-0050) may need tweaks to
audio codec initialization.
SYSFUND-0070 wants booting from UHCI and OHCI flash drives. I'm not
really sure whether that makes any sense to implement.

Generally, even with libpayload and SeaBIOS there are some things left
before we conform, but it is within reach.

If someone has time to check each requirement and confirm the status,
that would be great. I have to prepare for some more exams, so I'll be
relatively silent for the next few weeks.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

[Wang, Qingpei]

Is it booted by QEMU? Or real hardware?

Jason Wang
BeiJing Technology Development Center
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

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Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 11:13 PM
To: Coreboot
Cc: Kevin O'Connor
Subject: [coreboot] We boot Windows XP,Windows Vista and Windows 7
(build 7000)

Hello,

I'm pleased to announce that SeaBIOS and Coreboot can boot (and install)
Windows 
7 build 7000, which was released as public beta yesterday.

There is also some video taken by mine Cannon G7 camera.

http://media.avc-cvut.cz/avc_vlastni_tvorba/2009/ruik/w7-coreboot/

Test platform: Asus M2V-MX SE, 512MB RAM, AMD Sempron on 2GHz.

Moreover I was able to boot/install there Windows Vista (Bussines,
64bit) and 
Windows XP.

Most patches are in, there is just one missing which I indicated in the
previous 
email,
http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2008-December/043493.html

Kevin, can we sort this out?

Rudolf

We boot Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 (build 7000)

[Peter Stuge]

Wang, Qingpei wrote:
> Is it booted by QEMU? Or real hardware?

Real hardware. Have a look at the video here:
http://www.coreboot.org/Screenshots#coreboot_and_SeaBIOS_starting_Windows_7

It's an ASUS M2V-MX SE with an AMD Sempron CPU. This board has a VIA
K8T890 chipset.

//Peter

We boot Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 (build 7000)

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 04:12:43PM +0100, Rudolf Marek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm pleased to announce that SeaBIOS and Coreboot can boot (and install) 
> Windows 7 build 7000, which was released as public beta yesterday.

Great news!
> Most patches are in, there is just one missing which I indicated in the 
> previous email, 
> http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2008-December/043493.html
>
> Kevin, can we sort this out?

I believe the SeaBIOS code is fully synched up with your code.  So, I
guess the only things left are the changes to coreboot.

It would be great if someone could enhance coreboot to have an option
for storing the bios tables in high memory or at 0xf0000.  We've had
to manually hardcode the top-of-ram in the src/arch/i386/boot/tables.c
file - I think this should be automatically done when the appropriate
option is set.

-Kevin