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From: | Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko |
Subject: | Re: 16-bit bootloader support? |
Date: | Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:28:01 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090701) |
Bogdan wrote: > Most probably the developers of GRUB will say that this is useless but > did anyone think of adding 16-bit protected mode support to the > Multiboot specification and to GRUB? Which mode do you mean? protected mode=32-bit mode You may mean vm8086 mode but it's meant only for compatibility purposes. As such it's an OS responsibility to set it up when executing legacy code > > Cheers, > Bogdan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > address@hidden > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > -- Regards Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko Personal git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git
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