Project Summary

The purpose of this fork is to restore the simpler visual design of the original grub4dos text-mode interface, as found in the early 0.4.4 and 0.4.5 releases. Over the years, various visual changes were introduced that gradually moved away from that original design. This fork aims to bring back the look and feel of the earlier versions.

Some of these changes could be reversed through customizations to menu.lst, but others could not. Restoring those aspects of the original interface required modifying the source code. In particular, the changes to menu highlighting behavior could not be replicated through menu.lst settings and therefore necessitated a fork of the project.

In addition to restoring the original interface, I have fixed a handful of minor bugs encountered during my own use of grub4dos.

Enjoy grub4dos again, the classic way!

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Default Visual Style Comparison

grub4dos

grub4dos-classic

Boot Speed Comparison

grub4dos (16s)

grub4dos-classic (0.5s)