Michael Reichenbach schrieb: > Eric asked me to post some advertisements for grub4dos. > > If you are interested in multi booting I bet you know gnu grub 1.x, also > known as grub legacy. Grub legacy will be no longer developed by the gnu > grub project. Them are now working on grub2 and they have their reasons. > > grub4dos is a fork of grub 1.x legacy. Sure it must follow also GPL. It > has some exclusive features: > - it has all features grub also has (example: chainloading other mbr is > possible) > - chainloading syslinux/isolinux/memdisk (grub features) > - booting any linxu/bsd/or w/e (grub features) > - floppyimage to floppy emulation! > - iso to virtual CD-ROM emulation! > - it can initialize a real CD-ROM and boot it (useful for example in > case your BIOS does not support booting from CD-ROM; also useful if you > just booted and decided to boot now from CD-ROM) > - it can chainload an FreeDOS, DR-DOS, MS-DOS... kernel.sys directly > - it can also chainload Win9x and WinNT directly > - you can start grub4dos from within DOS (just after start or when > unloaded incompatible TSR`s) > - grub4dos can be also started from within NT bootloader > - when started it removes the old operating system (such as FreeDOS) > from the memory can start a new one > - sure grub4dos can be also direclty booted (not only thought DOS or NT > or Linux) > - just like for grub it`s no problem for grub to boot from floppy, > CD-ROM or USB (if the BIOS does support booting these devices) > > Note: > Floppy / Iso Emulation works well with most 16 bit operating systems > such as FreeDOS. Some 32 bit operating systems (such as Windows XP or > Puppy Linux) don`t like this. You can not download a Puppy Linux > bootable iso, store it on your harddisk, emulate it with grub4dos and > use it. However, it`s bootable. But after the 32 bit operating system > uses it`s own controller driver it will crash because it loses > connection to the virtual device. > > - The manual can be found here: > http://grub4dos.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page > - An English forum: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showforum=66 > > Any questions can be asked in the forums or on their mailing list. You > can also try the Chinese forum and a Chinese translator (never tested > myself). > > PS: > If you want to chainload a bootsector from an USB device and your BIOS > does not support booting USB directly then you may try PLoP Bootmanager > (http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html) (freeware, closed source)
Forgot to say... The most recent versions are a bit hidden but important to use them instant of the old ones: http://grub4dos.jot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
