Hello, I often hear from it on this mailing list, but I have not got the background.
What is VBE in GRUB ? Can anybody give me about 5 sentences ? Bye Christoph P. Timmy Douglas wrote: > > Alex Thiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >On Tuesday 12 February 2002 04:02, Timmy Douglas wrote: > >> i want to enable some flags for the multiboot information > >> structure. so i can get some VBE info. > >> > >> however, the docs talk about two separate groups of flags: the ones in > >> the binary header and the multiboot info flags. it says that the > >> multiboot info pointer is passed in %ebx (or whatever) to the main > >> function, but how can i set the flags so grub can put what i want in > >> the structure? > >> > > > >There are indeed two sets of flags: the OS requests features via the header > >in the OS image (see chapter OS image format in the multiboot documentation), > >and GRUB passes information about the actual state of the system in the > >multiboot info structure. > > ok thanks > > >For example, the OS requests VBE information via bit 2 of the flags field in > >the OS header. Suppose the BIOS did not support VBE, then GRUB would set the > >corresponding flag in the multiboot info structure to zero and leave it to > >the application to handle the situation. > > and one thing about your docs: > > +-------------------+ > 0 | vbe_control_info | > 4 | vbe_mode_info | > 8 | vbe_mode | > 10 | vbe_interface_seg | > 12 | vbe_interface_off | > 14 | vbe_interface_len | > +-------------------+ > > i assume that vbe_interface_len is 2 bytes? > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub -- +--------V--------+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | A L C A T E L | ----------------------------- +-----------------+ Phone: +43 1 27722 3706 T A S Fax: +43 1 27722 3955 _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub