Make it possible to boot Windows using coreboot

[uwe]

From ​http://www.linuxbios.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2006-November/016793.html:

The issue of booting XP just will not go away.

So, there are two options I see, in order of preference:
1. find some way, using kexec etc., to boot XP under Linux, then put Linux
in FLASH; done
2. revive ADLO

there have been a number of suggestions for how to do the first one.
1. freeldr
2. tinyldr

any other usable ones out there? This note is an attempt to start a
discussion and discovery on this subject.

[uwe]

Mostly works now, the exact status and a tutorial is available at
​http://linuxbios.org/Booting_Windows_using_LinuxBIOS

[navaraf]

FreeLDR can now boot Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003 directly without using Microsoft loader. It would probably make sense to make it work as a coreboot payload.

[uwe]

See also http://www.coreboot.org/SeaBIOS for a new (and actively developed) payload which is intended to allow booting Windows, *BSD, and other payloads which require legacy BIOS calls.

[stepan]

While this is still an ongoing process, we can consider the issue fixed. Windows works on quite some mainboards running coreboot now.