[SqNOS] Grub changes

[John Thornborrow]

Hi Richie,

At the moment this will be a proprietary gentoo ebuild for my company's 
use,  but in the long run I intend on applying the changes as a patch, 
and not as a stand-in for vanilla grub package.

Many thanks,
John.

Gerardo Richarte wrote:
> John Thornborrow wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Where can I get my hands on the changes made to grub (namely for setvbe?)
>>
>> I'm trying to get together a compilation package (ebuild) on gentoo,
>> and will need these sources :)
>>     
> I have all the changes required, let me get them together and send them
> to you.
>
> However, I have to say that I tried to push this changes to GRUB, but as
> we are using GRUB Legacy and the GRUB team refuses to take any additions
> to Legacy (except bugfixes), they refused this changes (this was somehow
> two years ago). Not sure how you are planning on including this in
> gentoo, but as GRUB is quite likely included in gentoo, this changes
> will either force gentoo to branch from GRUB "central", or to ship a
> complete set of source files for GRUB as part of SqueakNOS.
>
> I have both, modified vanilla GRUB Legacy and modified GRUB4DOS, which
> IMHO is much more powerful that vanilla GRUB, as it lets you boot from
> DOS and more important, chaining GRUB after Windows bootloader (ntldr),
> what makes it a quite non-intrusive option for Windows users.
>
>     Please, tell me what are you planning. In any case, I'll prepare a
> pack and send it to you.
>
>     richie
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