[coreboot] Windows XP boots
Kevin O'Connor
kevin at koconnor.net
Wed Aug 20 02:16:15 CEST 2008
Hi Myles,
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 04:54:55PM -0600, Myles Watson wrote:
> It changed the behavior for me for XP installation. Now I get "Hardware
> Malfunction Contact your hardware vendor for support."
Well, I guess that's progress. :-/ Does it fail after a while, or
right at the start? You got through the install with bochs bios,
right?
>
> I used 6 for the number of PCI buses.
[...]
> PCI: 07:09.1 [14e4/1648] enabled
I think you want to set CONFIG_PCI_BUS_COUNT to 8 - it should be one
more than your largest bus number.
> It still hangs in the same place for ReactOS. It wants me to press enter to
> continue, but it's frozen.
Hrmm. Does the bios keyboard support work at all? If you use a
freedos CD, can you type in dos commands?
Have you been able to confirm that reactos works on your machine with
a different bios?
-Kevin
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