Re: [Freedos-user] Does FreeDOS boot/work under UEFI?

2016-01-10 Thread G. Potthast
Using syslinux I could set up a bootable CD that does boot FreeDOS with UEFI. During boot a disk image of FreeDOS would be loaded into a memdisk and run from there. Don't know if anyone would be interested to use that though. Georg

Re: [Freedos-user] Does FreeDOS boot/work under UEFI?

2016-01-10 Thread Matt Rienzo
> Don't know if anybody would be interested to use that though. > > Georg Would the hardware interrupts for applications be the same? I.e., my application makes use of the pages in the video memory. 73 Matt Rienzo W9ERA B.S.E.E | B.S. Music On Jan 10, 2016 9:38 AM, "G. Potthast"

Re: [Freedos-user] Does FreeDOS boot/work under UEFI?

2016-01-10 Thread G. Potthast
>Would the hardware interrupts for applications be the same? I.e., my >application makes use of the pages in the video memory. The hardware interrupts will not be touched. This works as if the Bios first copies the FreeDOS image file to a RAMdisk and then starts the FreeDOS boot loader. The DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] Does FreeDOS boot/work under UEFI?

2016-01-10 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Using syslinux I could set up a bootable CD that does boot FreeDOS with > UEFI. During boot a disk image of FreeDOS would be loaded into a memdisk and > run from there. Don't know if anyone would be interested to use that though. > Georg How do you prepare such a disk image of FreeDOS? I

[Freedos-user] Does FreeDOS boot/work under UEFI?

2016-01-09 Thread caswellrienzo
Will FreeDOS 1.1 boot under UEFI? If not, is there a software layer that can sit between UEFI and the OS to emulate a BIOS? 73 Matt Rienzo W9ERA B.S.E.E | B.S. Music-- Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into

Re: [Freedos-user] Does FreeDOS boot/work under UEFI?

2016-01-09 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > >> Will FreeDOS 1.1 boot under UEFI? If not, is there a software layer >> that can sit between UEFI and the OS to emulate a BIOS? > > If somebody has experience with this, it would be nice if they > could share step by