On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 17:43 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > Does GRUB code run in real mode? I was thinking that double-buffering > the graphics might be important for fancy graphics effects, and wondered > whether is it difficult to allocate and deal with a megabyte or so block > of memory? When I last programmed real mode programs in DOS, I know the > limitations based on segment sizes, etc., but it's been a while.
GRUB runs in protected mode, but it can switch to the real mode temporarily to call BIOS. In any case, I believe that the menu implementation should be portable rather than x86 PC specific. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
