Well yes, that's exactly what this discussion was about, wasn't it? :) Cheers, Bogdan
----- Original Message ---- From: James Courtier-Dutton <james.dut...@gmail.com> To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org> Sent: Fri, October 9, 2009 4:06:45 PM Subject: Re: 16-bit bootloader support? 2009/10/7 Gabe Black <gabe.bl...@ni.com>: > > 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. > I don't think grub can work on any CPU below a 80386. It probably will no work on 8086, 80186 and 80286. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
