This directory contains the Grub 2.0 boot records that are used by Rufus

* boot.img and core.img were created from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.14.tar.xz
  with https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/raw/d51cbeb087dbbe979ff29af645f32071cce2834d/sys-boot/grub/files/grub-2.14-revert-image-base.patch
  applied (since GRUB are apparently unable to perform BASIC testing of their releases)
  on a Debian 13 x64 system using the commands:
    patch -p1 < grub-2.14-revert-image-base.patch
    ./autogen.sh
    # --enable-boot-time for Manjaro Linux
    ./configure --disable-nls --enable-boot-time
    make -j4
    cd grub-core
    ../grub-mkimage -v -O i386-pc -d. -p\(hd0,msdos1\)/boot/grub biosdisk fat exfat ext2 ntfs ntfscomp part_msdos -o core.img

* boot.img has been modified to nop the jump @ 0x66 as per grub2's setup.c comments:
  /* If DEST_DRIVE is a hard disk, enable the workaround, which is
     for buggy BIOSes which don't pass boot drive correctly. Instead,
     they pass 0x00 or 0x01 even when booted from 0x80.  */

* Note that, for convenience reasons, the content of boot.img is *not* the one that
  Rufus processes when writing the MBR.
  Instead, the byte array from src/ms-sys/inc/mbr_grub2.h (whose content is identical)
  is what Rufus uses. If you modify these files, be mindful that you may also need
  to update the array in mbr_grub2.h.

* For details, see src/format.c, src/msys/br.c and src/msys/inc/mbr_grub2.h.