| Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 22:20:57 -0500 |
| From: Adam Sulmicki <adam@cfar.umd.edu> |
| To: LinuxBIOS <linuxbios@clustermatic.org> |
| Cc: William Arbaugh <waa@cs.umd.edu>, Adam Agnew <agnew@cs.umd.edu> |
| Subject: [ANNOUNCE] LinuxBIOS boots Windows 2000, GRUB, and OpenBSD. |
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| We're happy to announce that we've been able to successfully boot |
| Windows 2000 without a legacy BIOS. We accomplished this by developing |
| software that combined elements from two very successful projects: |
| LinuxBIOS and BOCHS. The Etherboot project also helped in various ways. |
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| As a result now, we have a completely open source replacement for the |
| BIOS that can use (without modification) either LILO or GRUB as |
| bootloaders, and Linux, OpenBSD, and Windows 2000 as operating systems |
| (NOTE: We're still working on supporting FreeBSD and Windows XP. We |
| expect that improving ATA support will permit Win98 and WinXP to boot, |
| and finishing PIRQ support will permit FreeBSD to boot.) Motherboard |
| support is also limited at this time, but we hope to expand that along |
| with LinuxBIOS. |
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| More details can be found at: |
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| http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/Projects/sebos/main.shtml |
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| and |
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| http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/Projects/sebos/phase2.shtml |
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| Ironically, twenty years ago this month Compaq introduced their Compaq |
| portable computer with the first BIOS outside of IBM, see |
| http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=547 . |
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| Adam Sulmicki |
| Adam Agnew |
| William Arbaugh |
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| This work has been funded by a grant from DARPA under the CHATS program. |