sumone4life Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 What language/how would i go about making a utility/program that runs before the OS. An example is a program like CIA commander that gets priority in the boot process and runs before the OS. How would i go about creating one? Im curious on the language and the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siddhartha Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 you mean like GRUB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sumone4life Posted March 30, 2007 Author Share Posted March 30, 2007 i dont know what it is...all i want is to make a utility that i can put on a floppy that will run before the OS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siddhartha Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 oh....well of course you'd have to have the disk in b4 u started up and launch it off of boot settings (believe thats F12, maybe F2) and then, if you don't fell like doing the same next time, change the settings to only launch your main OS when you push *insert whatever hotkey you want here. May you enlighten me with the contents of this floppy disk in order for me to further research and see what is out there?Oh and by the way, GRUB is an acronym for GRand Unified Bootloader. For multiple OS use. The original "GRUB" has been superceded by GNU GRUB Click me to visit old site, with link to new one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvanegmond Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 GRUB is dumb.. I prefer LILO. github.com/jvanegmond Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siddhartha Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 why? look how much cooler it looks : G.R.U.B. L.I.L.O. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvanegmond Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 why? look how much cooler it looks : G.R.U.B.L.I.L.O.That's my point.. Look how simple LILO is! github.com/jvanegmond Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabus Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 You can add graphics to lilo if you want to. I think knoppix puts such a thing into the default config. You could also look fort ranish (?) part, that includes a dos-like boot-manager or the bsd-boot-loader or those from qnx/beos/... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvanegmond Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 You can add graphics to lilo if you want to. I think knoppix puts such a thing into the default config. You could also look fort ranish (?) part, that includes a dos-like boot-manager or the bsd-boot-loader or those from qnx/beos/...Yeah, I've tried it.. but LILO crashed and I had to reinstall Linux in order to get past the MBR.. =/ github.com/jvanegmond Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siddhartha Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 (edited) Yeah, I've tried it.. but LILO crashed and I had to reinstall Linux in order to get past the MBR.. =/hahahahaha your precious LILO crashed!!!!!!!!!! L.I.L.O. Me Knoppix***Edit***My stupid spelling in the morning Edited April 4, 2007 by Nikolai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvanegmond Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 (edited) lol, I guess that was a bit blunt.. Edited April 6, 2007 by Manadar github.com/jvanegmond Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cppman Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 What language/how would i go about making a utility/program that runs before the OS. An example is a program like CIA commander that gets priority in the boot process and runs before the OS. How would i go about creating one? Im curious on the language and the process.http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qi...05130230AAyXy7m Miva OS Project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zedna Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Look at XOSL boot manager. It comes also with sources.Here is link: http://www.ranish.com/part/xosl.htmNote: original www.xosl.org is down Resources UDF ResourcesEx UDF AutoIt Forum Search Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabus Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 @Manadar: Why didn't you: get a floppy/cdrom boot it maybe use dd to copy an "image" of your mbr back to disk use chroot edit the lilo.conf lilo to reinstall the loader reboot I think that should do the trick. I know that it's a little bit late and the topic is nearly dead, but I'm just curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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