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grub4dos
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chenall / grub4dos

grub4dos

外部命令和工具源码:https://github.com/chenall/grubutils 下载:

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-05-07 12:15:13 UTC to 2023-08-11 08:54:00 UTC.

012021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMay 20212021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 20222022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 2023

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Jun 20212021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20212021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20212021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Oct 20222022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20222022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20222022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Mar 20232023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20232023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20232023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jun 20232023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20232023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20232023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

3 sources
jaclaz·Aug 11, 2023
Yes, the DOS 7.1 (the one that comes with Windows 98) has also the capability (the actual IO.SYS or the bootsector code) to boot even if the IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS are not the first files on the volume (unlike last "real" DOS 6.22). In case, there is still bootpart (by Gilles Vollant) that can rewrite the root so that IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS are first files: https://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm To manage partition ID's, active and hidden status, etc, I would suggest instead grub4dos that has all the needed commands and of course a whole lot of (sometimes useful) booting capabilities, including the capability to boot a MS-DOS IO.SYS by directly chainloading it (i.e. bypassing the bootsector code, either the last 0.4.5c: http://grub4dos.chenall.net/downloads/grub4dos-0.4.5c-2016-0... or any more recent 0.4.6a version (legacy, not "for UEFI"): h
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ttps://github.com/chenall/grub4dos/releases should be fine . Of course in case of booting troubles you need to boot it from an external media. The page by jdebp, as well as the article in the topic are all about "ancient" MS-DOS versions, they are very useful if you are trying reproducing the past, but they (fortunately) do not apply to latest DOS or NT systems, though there are still - here and there - a number of little quirks, even on NT based systems, only as a side note in some cases you need to disable the CHS checks in order to be able to boot NT/2K/XP (and possibly later): https://clemens.endorphin.org/2007/12/removing-chs-based-acc... http://reboot.pro/topic/8528-how-to-patch-fat32-boot-sector/...
In Building DOS-Compatible Hard Disks
efreak·May 9, 2023
Interesting. An odd rabbit hole. I've never heard of this kind of thing existing before Ubuntu wubi, (though I don't know why that surprises me, it's not like they're was no need for such a thing before that): > DragonLinux was a distribution of Linux that had the ability to be installed on a loopback file on an existing FAT16 or FAT32 partition. https://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/dragonlinux/ In the readme linked there, it says something different: > DragonLinux is a Linux distribution which runs on top of windows with no partitioning needed as long as the Windows OS is sitting on a FAT32 partition. DragonLinux is fully supported on Windows ME and below. Work for support with Windows 2000 and Windows XP is in the works. > > DragonLinux is a UMSDOS distribution, compared to a Loopback filesystem of vr2r1... That change was made to
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eliminate the 2GB disk space boundary with the previous version, and to simplify installation and expansion (ie the file system grows as needed). > > The Full Version is a fully loaded version with GNome and several other smaller window managers, and the full line of tools for GNome. The lite version is a full console version with everything from the full version excluding the X environment, therefore being able to be run on older machines. Looking this up more brings me to umsdos project, a filesystem that apparently runs on top of another filesystem https://tldp.org/HOWTO/UMSDOS-HOWTO.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAT_filesystem_and_Linux This brings me to loadlin: > loadlin is a Linux boot loader that runs under 16-bit real-mode DOS (including the MS-DOS mode of Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Me startup disk). It allows the Linux system to load and replace the running DOS without altering existing DOS system files. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loadlin And then there's also grub4dos https://github.com/chenall/grub4dos
In macOS Internals
jaclaz·May 7, 2021
Wikipedia articles have apparently good info but not always really-really correct/updated: >GRUB4DOS was a now-defunct GRUB legacy fork that improves the installation experience on DOS and Microsoft Windows by putting everything besides the GRLDR config in one image file. It can be loaded by the Windows Boot Manager.[33][34] grub4dos was never defunct, it changed quite a few sites/places of development but it is still alive and kicking and now has also a version with UEFI support: https://github.com/chenall/grub4dos Unofficial western forum: http://reboot.pro/index.php?showforum=66
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