FYI, I recently demonstrated booting FreeDOS directly from flash on a machine with SeaBIOS and coreboot installed on it.
SeaBIOS is an open-source implementation of the legacy 16bit BIOS callbacks. When used with coreboot, it enables booting of Windows, Linux, and other OSes with a fully open-source BIOS. I recently added support for embedding a floppy image in flash. I used this support to boot a minimal FreeDOS floppy directly on my VIA epia-cn machine. More info on using SeaBIOS with coreboot is at: http://www.coreboot.org/SeaBIOS -Kevin ----- Forwarded message from Kevin O'Connor <[email protected]> ----- From: Kevin O'Connor <[email protected]> To: coreboot <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:23:14 -0400 Subject: SeaBIOS and CBFS floppy images It is now possible to embed an image of a floppy into a CBFS flash file and then boot from that image with SeaBIOS. I've used this to boot FreeDOS directly from flash on my epia-cn. An lzma compressed bootable FreeDOS floppy uses about 95K (for the base kernel and command interpreter). More information is available on the Coreboot SeaBIOS page: http://www.coreboot.org/SeaBIOS#Adding_a_floppy_image Cheers, -Kevin ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
