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Modern, advanced, portable, multiprotocol bootloader and boot manager.
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Unable to boot windows 7 on NON UEFI American Megatrends Inc. BIOS #412

Closed Arseniy132 closed 1 month ago

Arseniy132 commented 2 months ago

Hello. I have an actual problem. I'm right now in Arch Linux (btw) and in a NON UEFI BIOS system. before using Limine I used Grub to dualboot Windows 7 and Arch. I searched multiple solutions but none of them work. Someone help me. Arch User.

Arseniy132 commented 2 months ago

=(

Arseniy132 commented 2 months ago

https://github.com/Arseniy132/Limine-boot-issue

Arseniy132 commented 2 months ago

That link is the .sys and the .conf file

kovmir commented 2 months ago

You have provided zero details, nobody will be able to help you.

Arseniy132 commented 2 months ago

@kovmir what specifications do you need?

afifafifafifafifali commented 1 month ago

A drive can be initialized as MBR or GPT. Windows 7 can be installed as Legacy on a MBR drive or as UEFI on a GPT drive.

Arseniy132 commented 1 month ago

@afifafifafifafifali Yes, but I can only use MBR because I have Legacy BIOS as I said before, not UEFI.

mintsuki commented 1 month ago

In order to boot Windows with legacy BIOS you can use the bios_chainload protocol as described in the CONFIG.md file and chainload the VBR (aka the partition) containing the Windows bootloader.

afifafifafifafifali commented 2 weeks ago

@FER-HUM-LAB-INV I know. Can you upgrade the BIOS. e.g. SeaBIOS or OVMF which supports UEFI?