From: Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: 16-bit bootloader support?
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:28:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ACDDAD1.6090709@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7418.56476.qm@web37108.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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
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Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-08 12:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-07 19:26 16-bit bootloader support? Gabe Black
2009-10-07 20:12 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-10-07 20:22 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-10-08 5:34 ` Bogdan
2009-10-08 12:28 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
2009-10-09 13:06 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2009-10-09 13:37 ` Bogdan
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