On Jan 22, 2013, at 8:29 AM, Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 01/22/13 14:46, David Woodhouse wrote: > >> I have the CSM working reasonably well now for basic functionality. IDE >> disks and CDROMs show up in the EFI boot menu for booting in legacy >> mode, and if you choose them then SeaBIOS will boot what it's asked to >> boot. Windows, Linux and Solaris 11 boot fine. OpenBSD 5.2 crashes in >> its AML interpreter so I lazily told myself that was OVMF's problem and >> moved on. FreeBSD9 crashes in its boot menu and never actually boots, so >> that's the next thing for me to prod at... >> >> But basically, it's working. If you're interested, you can try it out: >> http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/seabios.git >> git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/seabios.git >> >> You do need the patch to OVMF to fix UMB RAM handling, from >> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=50FD7290.9060003%40redhat.com&forum_name=edk2-devel > > Does this mean the VGA BIOS / int 0x10 are available even to a UEFI OS > being booted directly from a UEFI boot option? > NO! > If so, perhaps Jeff might want to retry installing windows 2008 R2sp1 on > OVMF (= a build that includes the SeaBIOS CSM). For some reason even the > UEFI installation of win2k8r2 depends on the VGA BIOS. > There are some bugs in Windows, prior to Win8 in needing to fall back to INT 0x10 in some end cases. Thanks, Andrew > Thanks > Laszlo > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, > MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current > with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft > MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > edk2-devel mailing list > edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/edk2-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/edk2-devel
