China DOS Union

The legendary Avldr.exe 3in1 experiment has succeeded!

- This boot loader, a single file, can run in three environments:
* Windows * MS-DOS * NTLDR
- The way to use it is very simple,
* Under Windows, just double-click it;
* Under MS-DOS, just type Avldr.exe;
* In the NTLDR environment, modify boot.ini and add:
c:\avldr.exe="Boot Avldr"
- Of course, the Windows-side functionality is still being planned... ...

>> Please visit http://sysoft.zdwx.com/aviator/download.htm to get it!!!

Oh right, let me explain the meaning of Avldr: AV Ldr - AviatoR's Loader. The loader program for the AviatoR system (platform). ^_^ At present, the Avldr.exe uses Budian's Grub 0.96 version. - Borrowing it for a bit, thanks! ^_^

So your site is open again ^ ^ but I still can't find the webpage........- -???

Waiting eagerly!

Thanks for the attention! After some effort, the ROM-running edition of Grub, which we are borrowing Budian's naming style to call Grub4Rom, has already been successfully tested! This thing is only 64KB, but it's actually 120 KB of Grub, using a funny compression method. ;-) So I think there should be no problem providing both Avldr.exe and Grub4Rom before the May Day holiday, and opening the corresponding support webpage. Please keep an eye on: http://sysoft.zdwx.com/aviator/

Let me show my support first!

Looks like a good thing. I wonder if you can make the compression method public.
The compiled grub for dos needs to take up 130K of floppy space.
I wonder whether the ./configure script has any way to reduce the size of grub?
#/usr/bin
#--enable-preset-menu=FILE --disable-ntfs \
# Created by configure
#export CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -D_REENTRANT -D_SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT -fPIC"
#export CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -finline-functions -pipe"
#LC_MESSAGES=C ; export LC_MESSAGES ; export CC=gcc-3.2
./configure \
--enable-maintainer-mode \
--disable-dependency-tracking \
--enable-ext2fs \
--enable-fat \
--enable-reiserfs \
--disable-iso9660 \
--enable-gunzip \
--disable-md5-password \
--disable-ffs \
--disable-ufs2 \
--disable-minix \
--disable-vstafs \
--disable-jfs \
--disable-xfs \
--disable-packet-retransmission
--disable-diskless
--disable-example-kernel
--disable-hercules \
--disable-serial \
--disable-auto-linux-mem-opt
make

OP, I want to ask a grub for dos question. A long time ago I downloaded boot_fdr.zip from your 155.xxx.xxx.xxx homepage, but that package was missing grldr. Using my own compiled one worked fine. When using readntfs, I found that it couldn't detect any ntfs partitions at all (not sure whether it was caused by mixing things; the partitions are NTFS). Today I did a fresh install of windows server 2003 sp1. At the time the C drive was ntfs, I deleted it with diskgen and then formatted it with diskgen. Then during installation I formatted it as ntfs. As a result, after entering the GRUB综合版.rar downloaded from free.ys168.com and running diskgen, it kept reporting partition table errors like crazy. (Also not sure whether MS has some new idea again.) Then after that, every time I enter now, it goes straight to shell state. What is the reason? I already recopied all those files. Could it be that the hard disk partition table is still wrong,

- The compression method isn't mysterious, it's just 7Zip. This thing compresses even better than rar, and it has a Chinese localization by Chinese users. ;-) http://www.7-zip.org- As for the boot_fdr.zip issue, I think it may be related to the ntfs patch we're using.- The functionality of Grub4Rom has already been completed. It can be tested in VMware.

Thanks to Mr. hnlyzhd's efforts, Grub4Rom can now be obtained: http://sysoft.zdwx.com/aviator/grub4rom.htmlAvldr.exe is currently being assembled at the factory, hehe!

Already downloaded Grub4Rom, bump! Looking forward to Avldr.exe!

Question:
How do I use GRUB4ROM in VWARE? I'm not very familiar with virtual machines. I already got DOS to boot inside the virtual machine, so how do I add your ROM into the virtual machine files?
Which file should I modify?

It can't boot in VMware-5.0.
Black screen on startup

Has anyone flashed it yet? I'll wait and see.
This cbrom thing failed once before when I was flashing a full-screen logo, kind of scary.
Feels like this thing is more suitable for diskless networks; for a standalone machine I can't think of anything especially special about it.