From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BcPpC-0004J6-LH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:31:06 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BcPpA-0004Hj-7w for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:31:04 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BcPpA-0004HX-4u for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:31:04 -0400 Received: from [216.109.118.96] (helo=web60201.mail.yahoo.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BcPnb-0006tW-8r for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:29:27 -0400 Message-ID: <20040621142926.40693.qmail@web60201.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 07:29:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Piotr Krysik Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] BIOS checksums? In-Reply-To: <40D6F8F4.3000400@witch.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-58119015-1087828166=:39637" Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org --0-58119015-1087828166=:39637 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi, Are you talking about using proprietary closed-source BIOS-es of real PC? They are usually very hardware-depended. In fact I started a project to use QEMU to monitor interactions between guest OS and real hardware (similar to "PCI Host/Proxy" by Gianni Tedesco, but not limited to PCI hardware). At this point I have prof of concept prototype that successfully boots proprietary BIOS of my PC up to the point of testing the RAM. Regards, Piotrek Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, Since Fabrice opened the possibility to replace BIOSes, I decided to play a bit with few of them on QEMU. All of them seems to return one problem - Checksum error. I tried some Phoenix BIOSes, Award, MR. Bios - all with the same problem (some just giving a ROM checksum error messages, other simply doesn't show anything) All the BIOSes I tried are from the boards who supported pentium pro.. Have anyone had better luck? I'll be happy to provide links to some BIOSes (all from their vendors) Thanks, Hetz _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! --0-58119015-1087828166=:39637 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Hi,
 
Are you talking about using proprietary closed-source BIOS-es of real PC? They are usually very hardware-depended.
 
In fact I started a project to use QEMU to monitor interactions between guest OS and real hardware (similar to "PCI Host/Proxy" by Gianni Tedesco, but not limited to PCI hardware). At this point I have prof of concept prototype that successfully boots proprietary BIOS of my PC up to the point of testing the RAM.
 

Regards,
 
Piotrek


Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz@witch.dyndns.org> wrote:
Hi,

Since Fabrice opened the possibility to replace BIOSes, I decided to
play a bit with few of them on QEMU.

All of them seems to return one problem - Checksum error. I tried some
Phoenix BIOSes, Award, MR. Bios - all with the same problem (some just
giving a ROM checksum error messages, other simply doesn't show anything)

All the BIOSes I tried are from the boards who supported pentium pro..

Have anyone had better luck? I'll be happy to provide links to some
BIOSes (all from their vendors)

Thanks,
Hetz


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