[ros-kernel] Re: Thoughts about loadros

[Jason F. <jas...@ya...>]

Well I don't really want to play around with the boot sector of my
primary hard drive.. even if I do it, I'm sure those that just want
to try out ReactOS won't want to. I like the idea of loadros chain
loading freeldr, but wouldn't it be easier to rewrite loadros in C
then?

- Jason

--- Phillip Susi <ps...@cf...> wrote:
> Why can't you use freeldr?  Also, to support loading from dos (
> though I 
> can't see why you can't just reboot to freeldr and choose reactos
> ), maybe 
> loadros could be rewritten to chain load freeldr as if it had been
> loaded 
> by the bios, and let it do the rest of the work?
> 
> At 01:37 AM 11/12/2001 -0800, you wrote:
> >--- Brian Palmer <br...@sg...> wrote:
> >
> > >As of version 11.0c, Watcom C/C++ is going to be open source.
> > >www.openwatcom.org
> >
> >This looks good!
> >
> > >To me loadros has always seemed like a hack that needs to be put
> out
> > >to pasture.
> >
> >But its the only way I can test ros on real hardware!
> >
> >- Jason
> 
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