[LinuxBIOS] booting XP

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Tue Nov 7 16:49:35 CET 2006


* ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> [061107 16:47]:
> wow, looking at ADLO, this will be a bit of work, but worth it.
> 
> What's the accepted way to bulid 16-bit code nowadays? Still bcc?
> 
> as86 loader.s is easy: convert and junk as86.
> 
> I assume that vista will boot on legacy pc with 16-bit bios, right?

and only with that. They refused to put EFI support in there. Funny, but
Microsoft is a little bit on our side ;-)

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