On 12/31/2014 5:12 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > 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. > I checked just about a week ago and there was very little info about booting DOS (or any other effected OS,beside Linux) using a SeaBIOS stub. Yes, some VM working was mentioned, but that is not what the issue is with "running on a modern system". The last time I tried (with very little time due to work) a few month ago, the SeaBIOS stub would not come up properly, didn't get around to test with Windows 2000, which was the goal to get this working for a customer with a proprietary piece of software and non-cooperative "state of the art hardware". Ended up buying and using a used Dell from eBay...
But getting something along these lines working seamlessly for FreeDOS would be IMHO by far making more sense then all this "32bit (Free)DOS" stuff... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
