Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 22:20:57 -0500 From: Adam Sulmicki To: LinuxBIOS Cc: William Arbaugh , Adam Agnew Subject: [ANNOUNCE] LinuxBIOS boots Windows 2000, GRUB, and OpenBSD. We're happy to announce that we've been able to successfully boot Windows 2000 without a legacy BIOS. We accomplished this by developing software that combined elements from two very successful projects: LinuxBIOS and BOCHS. The Etherboot project also helped in various ways. As a result now, we have a completely open source replacement for the BIOS that can use (without modification) either LILO or GRUB as bootloaders, and Linux, OpenBSD, and Windows 2000 as operating systems (NOTE: We're still working on supporting FreeBSD and Windows XP. We expect that improving ATA support will permit Win98 and WinXP to boot, and finishing PIRQ support will permit FreeBSD to boot.) Motherboard support is also limited at this time, but we hope to expand that along with LinuxBIOS. More details can be found at: http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/Projects/sebos/main.shtml and http://www.missl.cs.umd.edu/Projects/sebos/phase2.shtml Ironically, twenty years ago this month Compaq introduced their Compaq portable computer with the first BIOS outside of IBM, see http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=547 . Adam Sulmicki Adam Agnew William Arbaugh This work has been funded by a grant from DARPA under the CHATS program.