There are some other floppy-based OS that might be a lot more useful: for example, KolibriOS has a nice GUI, networking support and IRCC chat client - so if your ethernet controller is supported, you could connect to the internet and chat with your friends right from your BIOS ! Btw there's an encrption IRCC mod, which could give the end-to-end-encrption chat. + other fun floppies like MichalOS - it has a built in piano, could quickly launch from your BIOS and play some melodies ;-)
However, to have more than one floppy, and also the support for more than 10 menu entries, you'd have to install my two unofficial SeaBIOS patches for that - https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/32238 . You could install both patches to your coreboot by executing this script while at ./coreboot dir: https://pastebin.com/raw/hv9sSuMU And here is a coreboot image for QEMU with these two patches applied and my collection of wonderful and useful floppies added to popular the entries list: https://github.com/mikebdp2/floparchive/blob/master/coreboot.rom?raw=true Descriptions of the most prominent floppies could be found here: http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Lenovo_G505S_hacking#Useful_floppies Run this coreboot.rom by executing this QEMU command: (some floppies are 64-bit) qemu-system-x86_64 -L . -m 768 -localtime -vga vmware \ -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user -soundhw ac97 -bios ./coreboot.rom \ -boot menu=on -serial stdio Best regards, Mike Banon On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 6:45 AM Nathaniel Roach via coreboot <[email protected]> wrote: > > Heh, I did that to put solitaire in my BIOS. Worked pretty well when I > modified the VBIOS to not stretch the output. > > On 11/4/19 6:48 pm, John DeGood wrote: > > Cute use of coreboot + SeaBIOS virtual floppy to run Windows 3.1 + apps > > from flash: > > > > https://sakamoto.pl/weblog/07-windows-3-flash-edition/ > > > > Reposted by Hackaday: > > > > https://hackaday.com/2019/04/10/windows-3-1-in-my-bios-its-more-likely-than-you-think/ > > _______________________________________________ > > coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
