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From: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
To: kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Subject: Re: [Fastboot] restoring x86 BIOS state before reboot
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:41:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070429094135.GA10948@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1zm4rd676.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> [2007-04-29 08:51]:
> 
> It may also be worth investigating if it is possible to bypass
> the part of windows that uses BIOS calls.  I really don't have
> a clue how a modern windows systems boots.

I think ReactOS has a bootlader that can also boot Windows, or at
least they are close to booting the Windows kernel. That bootloader
could be then used for booting Windows without BIOS calls.

I also heard that the 100-$-Laptop should now be able to use Windows.
As it's using LinuxBIOS, this could also be interesting. However,
maybe Microsoft simply modifies a special Windows for this, or they
integrate a ClosedSource part in that LinuxBIOS, I don't know ... :-(


Thanks,
   Bernhard

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-29  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-06 15:46 restoring x86 BIOS state before reboot Bart Trojanowski
2007-04-06 17:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-29  6:51 ` [Fastboot] " Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-29  9:41   ` Bernhard Walle [this message]
2007-04-29 14:46     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-29 16:28     ` David Woodhouse
2007-05-11 18:23     ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-11 19:29       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-11 20:18       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-11 21:11         ` yhlu

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