Dear TinyBit & Gandalf,
Our WinGRUB wishes to support the latest version of GRUB4DOS / GRUB4ALL. But there are some enhancements that can be made for universal use at least under FATs & NTFS.
1. Under GRUB4ALL, it seems that NTFS support is only built into grub.exe but not into grldr. Could Gandalf help in this respect to build it into grldr.
2. Under GRUB4ALL, though grldr has incorporated NTFS support, it has also made BOOTGRUB part of grldr. That means, such grldr is not bootable by the BOOTGRUB of the previous version under FATs and has to be booted up by NTLOADER. This still makes grldr rely on MS support.
So to do away with MS support, at least during the initial booting process, i.e. also the purpose of GNU GRUB, we need to have a BOOTGRUB and a grldr that supports FATs & NTFS.
And what is better, to have BOOTGRUB divided into separate 512byte bootsectors for selective copying into partitions of different types:
BOOTGRUB12; for supporting FAT12
BOOTGRUB16; for supporting FAT16
BOOTGRUB32; for supporting FAT32
BOOTGRUBNT; for supporting NTFS
So could Tinybit or Gandalf consider making these enhancements? The priority is:
1. a grldr that supports NTFS without incorporating BOOTGRUB
2. a BOOTGRUBNT
Our WinGRUB wishes to support the latest version of GRUB4DOS / GRUB4ALL. But there are some enhancements that can be made for universal use at least under FATs & NTFS.
1. Under GRUB4ALL, it seems that NTFS support is only built into grub.exe but not into grldr. Could Gandalf help in this respect to build it into grldr.
2. Under GRUB4ALL, though grldr has incorporated NTFS support, it has also made BOOTGRUB part of grldr. That means, such grldr is not bootable by the BOOTGRUB of the previous version under FATs and has to be booted up by NTLOADER. This still makes grldr rely on MS support.
So to do away with MS support, at least during the initial booting process, i.e. also the purpose of GNU GRUB, we need to have a BOOTGRUB and a grldr that supports FATs & NTFS.
And what is better, to have BOOTGRUB divided into separate 512byte bootsectors for selective copying into partitions of different types:
BOOTGRUB12; for supporting FAT12
BOOTGRUB16; for supporting FAT16
BOOTGRUB32; for supporting FAT32
BOOTGRUBNT; for supporting NTFS
So could Tinybit or Gandalf consider making these enhancements? The priority is:
1. a grldr that supports NTFS without incorporating BOOTGRUB
2. a BOOTGRUBNT

