On Jul 4, 2014, at 7:37 AM, Gurinder Singh <frederick.the.f...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Oh wait. Please Ignore my last email. I just found the command to load an 
> application in Nt32Pkg.  Type only the name of the application. "load" is not 
> required.
> 
> Now I have managed to load x86 version of boogmgfw.efi in Nt32Pkg shell. It 
> seems to start okay. An exception "0xC0000096: Privileged instruction" occurs 
> at the following line in CoreStartImage():
> 
>       Image->Status = Image->EntryPoint (ImageHandle, 
> Image->Info.SystemTable);
> 
> But I think that's expected because this exception is coming from inside the 
> image itself and, being a bootloader, this image is calling some privileged 
> instruction which SecMain.exe cannot support.
> 
> Could this be the cause of the failure inside my shim? May be bootmgfw.efi 
> needs some more privileges or something and my puny shim doesn't have them? 
> Could that be a reason why StartImage() is returning EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER?
> 

The Nt32Pkg (EmulatorPkg) run as an OS application, so it runs deprivileged. 
Real EFI runs as ring 0, so that would not be an issue.

Thanks,

Andrew Fish 

> -Gurinder
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