using bios after linux

yhlu yinghailu at gmail.com
Wed Oct 10 00:58:46 EDT 2007


On 9/30/07, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at in.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 06:57:30AM -0700, C Michael Sundius wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >   I've been working on a project where we are using linux as an
> > operating environment for some
> >   setup work prior to booting windows. our control flow looks like this
> >
> >   reset => (1)linux & linux aplication =>
> >   (2)kexec => (3)proprietery 16bit real code (uses bios) =>
> >   (4)ntloader => (5)Windows
> >
>
> Interesting. Just curious to know that how above setup is useful?

is it possible to use some emulator under linux and at some point to
exit the emulator and jump the entry..

YH



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