submitted 11 months ago by waspentalive@lemmy.one to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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I have a laptop that will not allow anything but UEFI and I must run FreeDOS.. (or one of many other OSes that wont boot via UEFI)

Is there a UEFI Bios shim? UEFI thinks it is an OS, but It loads the BIOS boot block and runs it?

Is that even possible?

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[-] waspentalive@lemmy.one 1 points 11 months ago

I think I read this is how HP supplies their "no OS" machines - a very thin Linux with a VM running the FreeDOS fullscreen.

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