On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 03:50:09PM -0800, Ralf Quint wrote: > A better spend time (and money?) would be to convince someone at the SeaBIOS > project to help providing an (U)EFI boot stub, upon which a "classic" 16bit > FreeDOS then could boot just "like in the old days" on the newest systems...
FYI, there is a mechanism for UEFI systems to support 16bit code - it's called a Compatibility Support Module (CSM). SeaBIOS does support being compiled as a CSM and is known to work under a VM and I've been told it's been run on real hardware as well. I don't know if anyone has done that outside of a "lab environment" though. Most commercial UEFI installs I thought had a CSM, so I'm surprised that you're having problems booting DOS on them. Unrelated to UEFI, I regularly boot to FreeDOS on my chromebook and coreboot motherboard with SeaBIOS for testing purposes. I haven't seen any signs that modern hardware intrinsically can't handle freedos. -Kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
