Am Mittwoch, den 07.10.2009, 14:26 -0500 schrieb Gabe Black: > > So I have a real-time OS named Pharlap that has a 16-bit bootloader > that ends up switching to 32-bit protected mode and loads the OS. I > think it relies on the first sector of the partition being loaded and > execution simply started - but in real-mode. > > Is there any way to have grub do this (legacy or grub2)? I tried > chainloading, but I think that may be loading it in 32-bit mode. Any > pointers on what code I would have to modify to create that option for > grub? > > Any help is appreciated. >
chainloader switches to real mode just before jumping to the loaded bootsector. But if that bootloader already loads the OS in 32bit mode then multiboot may be an option. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
