[coreboot] Win7 boot

Stefan Reinauer stefan.reinauer at coreboot.org
Thu Oct 25 23:26:46 CEST 2012


* Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> [121025 23:07]:
> Hi,
> 
> A Shirwaikar, Atita wrote:
> > In Qemu environment and using coreboot, we are trying to install
> > Windows 7 on our virtual disk. Installation fails throwing this error.
> > 
> > "Windows failed to load because the firmware (BIOS) is not ACPI
> > compatible"
> > 
> > What do we do to get past this error. Kindly help
> 
> You start debugging the ACPI tables, and specifically in the context
> of what Windows thinks of them.

coreboot for Qemu has no ACPI tables. Patches to include the SeaBIOS
ACPI tables in coreboot/Qemu are welcome!

Stefan




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