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author | Stefan Reinauer <stepan@openbios.org> | 2006-10-14 21:35:30 +0000 |
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committer | Stefan Reinauer <stepan@openbios.org> | 2006-10-14 21:35:30 +0000 |
commit | c1c3fdc79fab5b0d1572ea8f606c280b2df9676c (patch) | |
tree | 5cb58e91d722314d36403928d37c374c97403dea /util/ADLO/README.1st | |
parent | 5ed51d19331945915d2a879d11d72a7d1a8751b7 (diff) | |
download | coreboot-c1c3fdc79fab5b0d1572ea8f606c280b2df9676c.tar.xz |
add ADLO to v2
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diff --git a/util/ADLO/README.1st b/util/ADLO/README.1st new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9f77001416 --- /dev/null +++ b/util/ADLO/README.1st @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +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. + +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. + +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. + +More details can be found at: + +http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/Projects/sebos/main.shtml + +and + +http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/Projects/sebos/phase2.shtml + +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 . + +Adam Sulmicki +Adam Agnew +William Arbaugh + +This work has been funded by a grant from DARPA under the CHATS program. |