CSMwrap - boot CSM on UEFI only systems.

[TSNH]

1 hour ago, muzungu said:

no idea?

Looks like booting from USB is an open issue on CSMWrap's github https://github.com/FlyGoat/CSMWrap/issues/96

[muzungu]

Hi, ok, thanks. no solution right now I see

[Dietmar]

There is a new version 2.0 of csmwrap.

https://github.com/FlyGoat/csmwrap

It solves 2 big hurdles:

To put the bar < 4 GB and to shrink the vga memory to 256.

This is necessary, to prevent Bios to use again memory > 4GB

Dietmar

[reboot12]

When we create the i219 driver for XP, I will start thorough testing CSMWrap 2.0.0 and two new versions 2.1.0 and 3.0.0

[Dietmar]

@reboot12

copied away

Edited February 28 by Dietmar

[seahorser]

@Dietmar So in order to boot xp x32 we need boot files from vista? Where I should place csmwrap efi to a usb disk to boot in UEFI bios? Do I need the csmwrap.ini? How csmwrap knows what bootloader it has to load? I have placed csmwrapx64.efi on usb: EFI\BOOT\ renamed as BOOTX64.EFI and on the same usb partition I place ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini which has several entries at root. Then boot from UEFI: "my usb name" and it goes straight to hard disk and load the THAT os from there. Why I don't see the count down timer from boot.ini? I think that it didn't run csmwrap at all and have done several test changing usb partition type ID with bootice, set usb MBR with bootice's "Process MBR" etc.

ps. I'm new to UEFI

Edited April 14 by seahorser