RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Open GFW Howto

["Zhang, Xing Z" <xing.z.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Hi Wing,
>
>   Thanks for the howto, building the GFW is a little tricky.
>I'd also
>like to see us move exclusively to the open source GFW.  One
>other issue
>I want to point out though is that the open source GFW can't
>run the
>nvrboot.efi utility shipped with Windows.  Whenever I try to
>run it I
>get:
>
>'nvrboot' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
>operable
>program, or batch file
>Exit status code: Invalid Parameter
>
>"." is in my path, and I've tried all variations of specifying
>the full
>name of the executable and the absolute path that I can think
>of.  Has
>anyone else tried this and seen this problem?  Thanks,
>

nvrboot can work on my box, see attachment.
I also notice if I set CDROM in "disk" filed of configure
file, then the issue you said raise. I didn't test CDROM before,
I guess it's a wrong mapping bug of EFI shell which is a binary
component of open firmware.

Attachment: nvrboot.JPG
Description: nvrboot.JPG

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