From c1c3fdc79fab5b0d1572ea8f606c280b2df9676c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Reinauer Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 21:35:30 +0000 Subject: add ADLO to v2 git-svn-id: svn://svn.coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk@2457 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1 --- util/ADLO/README.1st | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+) create mode 100644 util/ADLO/README.1st (limited to 'util/ADLO/README.1st') 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 +To: LinuxBIOS +Cc: William Arbaugh , Adam Agnew +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. -- cgit v1.2.3