Hello! (Incidentally all of you are getting this because Google Mail delights in sending things out as reply-all.) I'm currently an observer in this set of circumstances but as it happens Stefan you are very right. My older laptop used a BIOS that was more suited to an earlier and even uglier release of Windows(!) and this one is using EFI and behaves strangely sometimes.
Oh and I was able to run Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 for a while on the older one. Slowly of course but those versions ran. Let's see what does work.. ----- Gregg C Levine [email protected] "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 6:53 PM Stefan Reinauer <[email protected]> wrote: > > * ron minnich <[email protected]> [190611 07:13]: > > if you boot windows 12 would you need tianocore? > > Need is a harsh word, but the simple answer to a simple question is yes, > you do. > > You can use SeaBIOS, but Windows does not officially support legacy BIOS > since at least Windows 7, so whatever works today might stop working > tomorrow. > > > > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 1:44 PM Nico Huber <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On 09.06.19 20:53, Matt B wrote: > > > > It is possible through u-root support for multiboot images [1] to > > > > chainload > > > > grub? > > > > > > Yes, I would think so. But in case we are still on topic: It won't > > > help you to boot Windows (unless you also implement UEFI services > > > in your LinuxBoot and use a UEFI GRUB). > > > > > > To chainload something for Windows I would currently go either one of > > > these ways: > > > > > > coreboot -> LinuxBoot -> SeaBIOS -> Windows loader > > > coreboot -> LinuxBoot -> tianocore -> Windows loader > > > > > > I think SeaBIOS already has an option to build a multiboot image. In > > > either case you could also (in theory) pack either into a bzImage and > > > feed that to kexec. > > > > > > Nico _______________________________________________ coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
