Boot Windows Please!

Digital Infra, Inc. okajima at digitalinfra.co.jp
Wed Jan 26 03:53:01 CET 2005


And it boots Windows XP?

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Thanks! I did just reinvent the wheel.
BTW, how it has progressed?
these two URLs get not found.
http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/Projects/sebos/main.shtml
http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/Projects/sebos/phase2.shtml

                                   --- Okajima.



>* Digital Infra, Inc. <okajima at digitalinfra.co.jp> [050126 13:51]:
>> 
>> Hello.
>> 
>> As my understanding, current LinuxBIOS can not boot Windows and
>> the reason for it is that it depends on 16bit bios feature much.
>> So far is right? If right, how about this way. Have you noticed already?
>> 
>> First, LinuxBIOS is loaded from flash ROM. Then, it moves itself to
>> uppder 16M area. and it loads some free 16bit BIOS image from somewhere ( e.g.
>> HDD, USB memory or even network) to under 1M area. And LinuxBIOS jumps to
>> 16bit BIOS. Of course, this sequence should not be invoked automatically but
>> by user command, e.g. run_windows or such.
> 
>Something like this has been done before, it's called ADLO. Check the
>mailinglist archives for more information...
>
>Stefan
>
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