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 Post subject: patched grub binary
PostPosted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:08 pm 
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hello

I would like to share my patched grub that I've compiled for i386.

See http://wiki.osdev.org/Drawing_In_Protected_Mode section "Switching".

How could I do that? 380kb


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 Post subject: Re: patched grub binary
PostPosted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:58 pm 
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Hmmm... wouldn't it be better (and easier, actually) if you published the patch? Not only would it allow people to see that you didn't add a virus or something, it would also show people what you did to make it work, which could be interesting.

Edit: I just looked at the wiki page you referenced... both the patch and the binary are already there...?

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 Post subject: Re: patched grub binary
PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:21 am 
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Solar wrote:
Hmmm... wouldn't it be better (and easier, actually) if you published the patch? Not only would it allow people to see that you didn't add a virus or something, it would also show people what you did to make it work, which could be interesting.

Edit: I just looked at the wiki page you referenced... both the patch and the binary are already there...?

it's the VBE patch, man! you can get it from here.


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 Post subject: Re: patched grub binary
PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:57 am 
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Solar wrote:
it's the VBE patch, man! you can get it from here.


yes, you're right. but there is no binary.

well, I thought it is important to have a bootloader that works for the ones that dont want to rool their own or dont want or cant built grub. There are

many developers that are not currently using linux, like me. I built grub using my LFS system, that isnt ready

yet. So, it gives me a good build environment, however, it doesn't provide a nice, easy and fast environment as windows gui.
The gz package i'm talking about is a compilation of grub that i haven't removed anything including documentation. That's why it's so big. I made this so

that you can even substitute your grub that you're using in your system and you shall have extended functions in your real system.

I could upload it to my site but it is hosted at my computer and I dont keep it on all day long or rapdshare or something else.

Note: version 0.97; with grub-0.97-disk_geometry-1.patch.


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