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On 24.01.2012 15:40, Joachim Mammele wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I have got a tablet with special frontkeys and I would like to install 
> and adapt android on it. This works fine with the project android-x86.org
>
The version you refer to, isn't supported anymore. Only GRUB2 is still 
developped. GRUB Legacy is abandoned.
>
> bits9 = system("readFrontKey");
You can't use usual syscalls inside bootloader. GRUB2 has its own API 
which is somewhat posix-like but has no such things as "system", pipes 
or forks, and normally there shouldn't be any need.

-- 
Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko