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CoreBoot (LinuxBIOS) Can Boot Windows 7 Beta

Posted by timothy on from the now-you're-just-messing-with-me dept.

billybob2 writes "CoreBoot (formerly LinuxBIOS), the free and open source BIOS replacement, can now boot Windows 7 Beta. Videos and screenshots of this demonstration, which was performed on an ASUS M2V-MX SE motherboard equipped with a 2GHz AMD Sempron CPU, can be viewed on the CoreBoot website. AMD engineers have also been submitting code to allow CoreBoot to run on the company's latest chipsets, such as the RS690 and 780G."

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  1. Yay! Let's trade speed for dumb. by mandark1967 · · Score: 0, Troll

    In our ever-increasing need to "dumb down" all things related to computers, this will only result in more bloated, slow code.

    *sigh*

    I for one look forward to our "21 freaking seconds to access BIOS?!" overlords.

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