Re: 16-bit bootloader support?

[Bogdan]

Well yes, that's exactly what this discussion was about, wasn't it? :)

Cheers,
Bogdan




----- Original Message ----
From: James Courtier-Dutton <address@hidden>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <address@hidden>
Sent: Fri, October 9, 2009 4:06:45 PM
Subject: Re: 16-bit bootloader support?

2009/10/7 Gabe Black <address@hidden>:
>
> 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.


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