Stefanos Papanicolopulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe this had been discussed a while ago, but I can't find it, and > I would > also like to know if there has been anything newer on this: > > What would happen if linuxbios insted of loading an operating system or > boot loader > would load an image of the BIOS, revert to 16bit mode and jump to it?
It can load an image of a 16bit BIOS but I doubt you can jump to a BIOS not built for it. The problem being that a BIOS needs to enable and setup ram, and ram is already enabled and setup, and you can only do that once. > Of course the answer I would like to hear is "everything would work ok > and it would > be as if linuxbios had never run, and you could run that other OS noone > ever mentions > and live happily ever after", but I guess it is not that easy. (For > example, is > the 'revert to 16bit mode' possible without using VM86?) Yes. That part is easy. With LinuxBIOS you can write a motherboard indepedant x86 BIOS like bootloader, that just handles the part of the x86 BIOS that everyone sees. And except for loading a table whenever LinuxBIOS loads anything it is like it never existed. Eric
