Re: How in the world do you set up a GUI??
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 7:20 am
I don't bother with VBE and Grub. I want my boot loader to be able to prompt me for the graphics mode I want. It's not too difficult to write some code that switches back to real mode temporarily to do the VBE stuff.requimrar wrote:Yes, but that requires I be in real mode (at least according to the wiki); I'm using grub.gerryg400 wrote:You get the frame_buf_ptr from the mode info block for the mode you choose. It's often near the top of the 32bit address space.