Op 8-6-2011 1:22, Eric Auer schreef: > Not really - www.coreboot.org/SeaBIOS you can simply load an UEFI > payload which implements the classic PC BIOS interface. Actually > it seems that modern BIOSes already do this and just do not talk > much about also supporting UEFI, maybe because Windows still runs > worse with their not yet complete and stable UEFI core behind ;-)
Hi Eric, I was under the impression that modern UEFI based systems were dropping all legacy compatibility, officially only supporting Windows 7 and recent Linux systems. Seems like I was wrong there. I hope any current harddisks (below 2TB) will remain using MBR under UEFI instead of GPT being required. > For example some AM3 / AM3+ boards claim to have the best of both > worlds by supporting GPT partition boot from huge disks thanks to > their UEFI under the hood while still "having a normal BIOS"... Ah so UEFI with a compatibility legacy BIOS under it? nice, however not very publicly advertised. > If a very futuristic BIOS would only show the UEFI side and save > the "ROM" flash space to provide a classic BIOS, you can load your > SeaBIOS after booting an UEFI-capable boot loader or maybe you can > flash SeaBIOS as additional module on your mainboard. All of course > speculation from my side as I have not seen such BIOSes yet :-p I was hoping for a 4MB flash with small coreboot/seabios thus lots of space for FreeDOS :) For network installs of modern operating systems I guess a scripted PXE environment might help (www.ipxe.org for example) Not much info to found about "install your OS from same disk you want to install it to". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
