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pdboot: public domain bootloaders
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2015 1:22 pm
by madanra
I have finally got round to releasing my MBR and ext2 VBR to the public domain
They can be found
on GitHub. Comments and suggestions welcome!
One of my hopes in doing this is that newbies have a lighter weight option than GRUB if they don't want to start with rolling their own bootloader. I don't think this project is there yet, as this bootloader loads inode 5 (the bootloader inode) of an ext2 filesystem, and putting your boot code there is a slightly arcane process.
Re: pdboot: public domain bootloaders
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2025 1:38 am
by kerravon
madanra wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2015 1:22 pm
I have finally got round to releasing my MBR and ext2 VBR to the public domain
They can be found
on GitHub. Comments and suggestions welcome!
One of my hopes in doing this is that newbies have a lighter weight option than GRUB if they don't want to start with rolling their own bootloader. I don't think this project is there yet, as this bootloader loads inode 5 (the bootloader inode) of an ext2 filesystem, and putting your boot code there is a slightly arcane process.
Hi Mark.
Just letting you know I used your MBR code (a couple of years ago) and still use it - thanks for releasing it to the public domain. I was looking to see if you had produced any FAT bootloaders and ran across this old post.
Re: pdboot: public domain bootloaders
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2025 3:04 am
by madanra
Glad it's been of use! This is the first time I've heard of someone using it since I published it 10 years ago
Did you originally come across it from this post or some other way?
No FAT bootloader coming though – I haven't done anything OSDev related for a good few years now.
Re: pdboot: public domain bootloaders
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2025 8:16 am
by kerravon
madanra wrote: ↑Sat Jul 26, 2025 3:04 am
Glad it's been of use! This is the first time I've heard of someone using it since I published it 10 years ago
Did you originally come across it from this post or some other way?
I think I found it from a google search, but possibly some other pointer - pretty sure I saw this message for the first time today.
Did you originally come across it from this post or some other way?