[ros-kernel] Re: Thoughts about loadros

[Phillip S. <ps...@cf...>]

That's what dos is for.  loadros uses dos int 21 to load the files.  It 
could simply load freeldr.sys to the correct location in memory, and jump 
to it.

At 01:25 PM 11/12/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>--- Phillip Susi <ps...@cf...> wrote:
> >You could boot freeldr from a floppy disk, that way without the
> >floppy, you boot dos, insert floppy, and freeloader boots reactos.
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>Slow.. I'd rather have loadros stick around.
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> >if loadros were rewritten to chain load freeldr, I think it would
> >only take about 100 lines of asm, if that.  Writing it in C would
> >then require a dos C compiler.
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>If its going to find it, it needs to understand the filesystem..
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>- Jason
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