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Pete Batard 8b47e95eb5 [grub] switch to the more compatible Grub 2.00-22
* Also enable Old BIOS fixes with Syslinux, Grub installation and fix related UI issues
* Also add a check to confirm that Grub SBR will fit
2014-11-18 23:49:29 +00:00

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This directory contains the Grub 2.0 boot records that are used by Rufus
* boot.img was compiled from git://git.savannah.gnu.org/grub.git at commit:
72ec399ad8d6348b6c74ea63d80c79784c8b84ae.
* core.img was compiled from grub 2.00-22 using the tarballs found at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/2.00-22.
The use of the 2.00-22 source is done for compatibility reasons.
* This was done on a Debian 7.7.0 x64 system using gcc-multilib 4.7.2, following
the guide from http://pete.akeo.ie/2014/05/compiling-and-installing-grub2-for.html
Note that exFAT was not included in core.img in order to keep it under 31.5 KB.
* boot.img has been modified to nop the jump @ 0x66 as per grub2's setup.c comments:
/* If DEST_DRIVE is a hard disk, enable the workaround, which is
for buggy BIOSes which don't pass boot drive correctly. Instead,
they pass 0x00 or 0x01 even when booted from 0x80. */
* Note that, for convenience reasons, the content of boot.img is *not* the one that
Rufus processes when writing the MBR.
Instead, the byte array from src/ms-sys/inc/mbr_grub2.h (whose content is identical)
is what Rufus uses. If you modify these files, be mindful that you may also need
to update the array in mbr_grub2.h.
* For details, see src/format.c, src/msys/br.c and src/msys/inc/mbr_grub2.h.