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Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 22:20:57 -0500
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From: Adam Sulmicki <adam@cfar.umd.edu>
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To: LinuxBIOS <linuxbios@clustermatic.org>
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Cc: William Arbaugh <waa@cs.umd.edu>, Adam Agnew <agnew@cs.umd.edu>
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Subject: [ANNOUNCE] LinuxBIOS boots Windows 2000, GRUB, and OpenBSD.
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We're happy to announce that we've been able to successfully boot
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Windows 2000 without a legacy BIOS. We accomplished this by developing
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software that combined elements from two very successful projects:
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LinuxBIOS and BOCHS. The Etherboot project also helped in various ways.
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As a result now, we have a completely open source replacement for the
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BIOS that can use (without modification) either LILO or GRUB as
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bootloaders, and Linux, OpenBSD, and Windows 2000 as operating systems
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(NOTE: We're still working on supporting FreeBSD and Windows XP. We
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expect that improving ATA support will permit Win98 and WinXP to boot,
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and finishing PIRQ support will permit FreeBSD to boot.) Motherboard
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support is also limited at this time, but we hope to expand that along
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with LinuxBIOS.
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More details can be found at:
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http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/Projects/sebos/main.shtml
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and
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http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/Projects/sebos/phase2.shtml
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Ironically, twenty years ago this month Compaq introduced their Compaq
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portable computer with the first BIOS outside of IBM, see
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http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=547 .
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Adam Sulmicki
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Adam Agnew
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William Arbaugh
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This work has been funded by a grant from DARPA under the CHATS program.
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