DOS ain't dead

ACPITOOL v1.1 (Announce)

posted by RayeR , CZ, 08.03.2022, 14:33

I'd like to try it but I got a new laptop (HP ZBook 15 G8, core 11.gen.) at work a few weeks ago that is unfortunately completly legacy free so I cannot boot DOS there anymore :( There's no legacy boot option, I can boot only from UEFI partitions or directly *.EFI executables but they have to be signed (I guess), e.g. I can boot memtest86.efi but cannot boot UEFI Shell 2.2 from github...

It would be nice to have some UEFI compatible bootloader that could switch CPU back to realmode, load some CSM or other BIOS emulation layer and allow boot DOS. Or need to make some UEFI DOS that would use UEFI services instead of BIOS...

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DOS gives me freedom to unlimited HW access.

Complete thread:

• ACPITOOL v1.1 - Laaca, 08.03.2022, 12:13 (Announce)
  • ACPITOOL v1.1 - RayeR, 08.03.2022, 14:33
    • ACPITOOL v1.1 - KormaX, 09.03.2022, 13:28
      • ACPITOOL v1.1 - tom, 09.03.2022, 19:49
        • ACPITOOL v1.1 - KormaX, 09.03.2022, 20:54
          • ACPITOOL v1.1 - tom, 09.03.2022, 21:27
            • ACPITOOL v1.1 - KormaX, 09.03.2022, 21:35
      • ACPITOOL v1.1 - RayeR, 14.03.2022, 17:36
        • ACPITOOL v1.1 - Zyzzle, 15.03.2022, 00:54
          • ACPITOOL v1.1 - RayeR, 15.03.2022, 15:57
            • ACPITOOL v1.1 - Zyzzle, 16.03.2022, 00:50
              • ACPITOOL v1.1 - RayeR, 16.03.2022, 22:54
              • ACPITOOL v1.1 - tkchia, 03.04.2022, 22:25
                • ACPITOOL v1.1 - Zyzzle, 04.04.2022, 00:15
                • ACPITOOL v1.1 - RayeR, 04.04.2022, 18:56
                  • ACPITOOL v1.1 - tkchia, 04.04.2022, 19:55
                    • ACPITOOL v1.1 - RayeR, 04.04.2022, 20:30
                      • ACPITOOL v1.1 - tkchia, 05.04.2022, 22:33
  • ACPITOOL v1.1b - Laaca, 08.03.2022, 16:01
    • ACPITOOL v1.1b - RayeR, 09.03.2022, 02:01
  • ACPITOOL v1.2 - Laaca, 03.04.2022, 18:43
    • ACPITOOL v1.2 - RayeR, 05.04.2022, 05:12
      • ACPITOOL v1.2 - Laaca, 05.04.2022, 21:20