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Dismiss alert {{ message }} Manawyrm / nvme-int13h-optionrom Public * Notifications * Fork 0 * Star 28 Option ROM to boot x86 PCs from NVMe drives (legacy BIOS, INT 13h) License GPL-2.0 and 2 other licenses found Licenses found GPL-2.0 COPYING Unknown COPYING.NOTE Unknown COPYING.UBDL 28 stars 0 forks Activity Star Notifications * Code * Issues 0 * Pull requests 0 * Actions * Projects 0 * Security * Insights More * Code * Issues * Pull requests * Actions * Projects * Security * Insights Manawyrm/nvme-int13h-optionrom This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository. master Switch branches/tags [ ] Branches Tags Could not load branches Nothing to show {{ refName }} default View all branches Could not load tags Nothing to show {{ refName }} default View all tags Name already in use A tag already exists with the provided branch name. 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Type Name Latest commit message Commit time .github/workflows [ci] Work around Ubuntu packaging metadata issues May 15, 2023 14:56 contrib [cloud] Allow aws-import script to run on Python 3.6 April 6, 2022 14:36 src 23040byte October 30, 2023 23:13 COPYING Readme and License info October 30, 2023 12:40 COPYING.NOTE Readme and License info October 30, 2023 12:40 COPYING.UBDL [legal] Add support for the Unmodified Binary Distribution Licence March 2, 2015 12:07 README.md Add YouTube video to README October 31, 2023 05:04 View code NVMe INT13h Option ROM Project status Supported hosts Supported SSDs Features Limitations Similar projects / Alternatives README.md NVMe INT13h Option ROM Boot legacy PCs from NVMe storage: YouTube video with ThinkPad T43 T43 showing the NVME BIOS init message T43 Boot Menu showing a NVMe option This project allows old x86 computers using a classic BIOS to boot from modern NVMe storage attached via PCI(e). It's a heavily modified version of iPXE (which usually allows for booting from the network), but instead of the network, this code uses a port of the SeaBIOS NVMe implementation to talk to a local NVMe drive. Project status Works(tm) Very little fault tolerance and testing on different devices. Supported hosts * IBM ThinkPad T43 * QEMU VM, i440fx Supported SSDs * Samsung SSD 980 * Corsair Force MP510 Features * Booting from NVMe storage in Legacy/BIOS mode * Works on 32bit-only CPUs (Pentium 3, Atom, etc.) * Option ROM, USB flash drive, SD card, CD-ROM, chainloading (e.g. from grub) booting supported Limitations * Write support is currently disabled. The code is present, but it's additional danger for no benefit (for my usecase) * Only 1 NVMe drive (with 1 namespace) is properly handled at the moment * 64bit BARs are probably not handled correctly (untested!) Similar projects / Alternatives There are 2 other Option ROMs publicly available: * Samsung 950 Pro (exposed by the PCIe device, device-specific) * community modded VMWare NVMe ROM (didn't work on my hardware, did work in QEMU) This project is GPL-licensed, can be freely redistributed (both as binaries and source) and can be instrumented/debugged easily (as it's written in C). About Option ROM to boot x86 PCs from NVMe drives (legacy BIOS, INT 13h) Resources Readme License GPL-2.0 and 2 other licenses found Licenses found GPL-2.0 COPYING Unknown COPYING.NOTE Unknown COPYING.UBDL Activity Stars 28 stars Watchers 1 watching Forks 0 forks Report repository Releases No releases published Packages 0 No packages published Contributors 104 * @mcb30 * @rwcr * @stefanha * @pjaroszynski * @thomil * @chrivers * @udayankumar * @Manawyrm * @danielverkamp * @Mareo * @NiKiZe + 93 contributors Languages * C 97.2% * Assembly 1.2% * Perl 0.7% * Makefile 0.3% * PHP 0.3% * C++ 0.1% * Other 0.2% Footer (c) 2023 GitHub, Inc. Footer navigation * Terms * Privacy * Security * Status * Docs * Contact GitHub * Pricing * API * Training * Blog * About You can't perform that action at this time.