[ros-kernel] Re: Thoughts about loadros

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

Ok then.. we will have to also include freeldr in the binary distros.
Which license is freeldr under?

My asm is weak -- haven't touched it in a while -- anyone want to
volunteer for this task?

- Jason

--- Phillip Susi <ps...@cf...> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >Slow.. I'd rather have loadros stick around.
> >
> > >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.
> >
> >If its going to find it, it needs to understand the filesystem..
> >
> >- Jason
> >
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