* Digital Infra, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050126 13:51]:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> As my understanding, current LinuxBIOS can not boot Windows and
> the reason for it is that it depends on 16bit bios feature much.
> So far is right? If right, how about this way. Have you noticed already?
> 
> First, LinuxBIOS is loaded from flash ROM. Then, it moves itself to
> uppder 16M area. and it loads some free 16bit BIOS image from somewhere ( e.g.
> HDD, USB memory or even network) to under 1M area. And LinuxBIOS jumps to
> 16bit BIOS. Of course, this sequence should not be invoked automatically but
> by user command, e.g. run_windows or such.
 
Something like this has been done before, it's called ADLO. Check the
mailinglist archives for more information...

Stefan



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