Bootloaders and the Multiboot Specification

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Dreamsmith

Bootloaders and the Multiboot Specification

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Query: Are there any bootloaders other than GRUB that currently support the Multiboot specification?
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srg

Re:Bootloaders and the Multiboot Specification

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Dreamsmith wrote: Query: Are there any bootloaders other than GRUB that currently support the Multiboot specification?
Not that I know of, although I have been contemplating adapting my partially built bootloader (I abandoned it on favour of grub) into a multiboot compliant DOS based kernel loader. So you run your os from DOS rather than having to setup grub etc.

srg
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Therx

Re:Bootloaders and the Multiboot Specification

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Chris Giese wrote a Multiboot loader which loads your kernel from DOS. Its available here. And there's a thread about it here

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