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Of BIOS and UEFI: A shim?? (lemmy.one)
submitted 1 year ago by 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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[–] [S] 1 point 1 year 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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