[coreboot] Win7 boot

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Thu Oct 25 23:07:06 CEST 2012


Hi,

A Shirwaikar, Atita wrote:
> In Qemu environment and using coreboot, we are trying to install
> Windows 7 on our virtual disk. Installation fails throwing this error.
> 
> "Windows failed to load because the firmware (BIOS) is not ACPI
> compatible"
> 
> What do we do to get past this error. Kindly help

You start debugging the ACPI tables, and specifically in the context
of what Windows thinks of them.

You'll at a minimum need a checked build of Windows 7, some way to
communicate with WinDbg, and lots of time.

Another, complementary, approach is to compare with another data set.
So you would start Windows 7 using qemu without coreboot, see if that
works, and if so then study the ACPI differences between the two
systems.

It's pretty retarded that the Qemu folk refuse to contribute to
coreboot and insist on duplicating lots of code within SeaBIOS,
but there's not too much to do about that..


//Peter




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