At least Windows 10 supports the Legacy BIOS, and most likely 12 will too. As long as they are making a 32-bit version of Windows they're still caring about the "legacy" PCs and we shouldn't be worried. Also, it's hard to imagine a coreboot'er who would be running 12 natively - not inside some virtual machine.
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 2:38 AM Gregg Levine <gregg.drw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 gregg.drw...@gmail.com > "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 6:53 PM Stefan Reinauer > <stefan.reina...@coreboot.org> wrote: > > > > * ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com> [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 <nic...@gmx.de> 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 -- coreboot@coreboot.org > To unsubscribe send an email to coreboot-le...@coreboot.org _______________________________________________ coreboot mailing list -- coreboot@coreboot.org To unsubscribe send an email to coreboot-le...@coreboot.org
