Suggestions for i386-PC mode

[rdragonz]

I believe that porting all commands from the EFI mode to the i386-PC mode. This would allow all computers to use all the features available in this port.

[a1ive]

"all commands"?
that's impossible.

[rdragonz]

All commands that are not UEFI specific, sorry I made a mistake in the original post.

[a1ive]

Could you please list these commands?

[rdragonz]

Specifically map and wimboot, these commands are the best features of this port.

[a1ive]

I could port 'wimboot' to i386-pc.
However we can't port 'map' to i386-pc.
Instead, we need to completely rewrite this module, but I'm not good at assembly.

[rdragonz]

wimboot would be a good addition, considering there is already a BIOS version of it, but it has nowhere near the ease of use as the version in this fork of grub2.
Regarding map, there is already a version of the map command in grub4dos. (See https://sourceforge.net/projects/grub4dos/files/GRUB4DOS/)

[a1ive]

Regarding map, there is already a version of the map command in grub4dos.

I'm not good at assembly languages (BIOS int13h call).

[steve6375]

Doesn't loop work OK instead of map for most ISOs?
I thought grub2 already had wimboot for i386 in your version as well as UEFI?

[rdragonz]

Loop does not work for raw isos such as FreeDOS, and no this build does not have wimboot in i386 mode currently

[steve6375]

I don't understand? grubfm has wimboot support and I thought it was also in a1ive's grub2?
See /boot/grub/open.lua

Also distro/windows.sh

Does it matter that it is not built-in to the grub2 kernel?

Most people either use memdisk for DOS payloads, or call grub.exe (grub4dos executable).
Can you give a specific example of a DOS ISO that works in grub4dos but does not work in grub2?