[ros-dev] Re: [ros-bugs] [Bug 390] Freeloader Execption: DIVIDE BYZERO

[Jerry]

My bootsector is clean, and it is /highly/ derived from the *FreeDOS* 
bootsector (GPL). If you take the FreeDOS bootsector and mine and look 
at them side by side you will find some striking similarities. I have 
complied with the GPL and put the derivative work under the GPL too. I 
haven't been able to get a dev to look at it yet. If any who fall in 
that category want to, I'll send it to you.

Brandon Turner wrote:
> Taken from Ged's email ealier:
> "First of all, we must take the authors word on whether something 
> needs auditing or not."
>
> If you say it is clean, it is good enough for me.  Lets move on.
>
> Brandon
>
>
> Brian Palmer wrote:
>
>> Why are you wasting your time writing a completely new untested boot 
>> sector
>> when FreeLoader already has a fully working fully tested, stable, and
>> debugged boot sector? I know, I know - you're going to say that it is a
>> reverse engineered Microsoft boot sector. There are actually two - 
>> one is a
>> reverse engineered Microsoft boot sector, and the other is FreeLoaders.
>> Anyone who actually compares the source side by side can see that
>> FreeLoaders boot sector code is *not* a copy of Microsofts. They are 
>> vastly
>> different. I keep waiting for the auditors to do their job and audit 
>> this
>> piece of code, but they don't seem to be doing it. The point is, we 
>> don't
>> need another boot sector when, as soon as the code gets audited, the
>> original boot sector will be just fine.
>>
>> BTW - where can I download your boot sector code? It should be 
>> audited just
>> as much as the original boot sector code, since you've undoubtedly 
>> looked at
>> the FreeLoader & boot sector sources to see how things are done.
>>
>> -Brian
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ros-dev-bounces at reactos.org 
>> [mailto:ros-dev-bounces at reactos.org] On
>> Behalf Of Jerry
>> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 4:42 PM
>> To: ros-dev at reactos.org
>> Subject: [ros-dev] Re: [ros-bugs] [Bug 390] Freeloader Execption: DIVIDE
>> BYZERO
>>
>> I had this same problem when developing my bootsector. When I reset 
>> the bootdrive before I jumped to freeldr the problem went away. I 
>> think that the first thing that freeldr needs to is to reset the boot 
>> drive before it moves on.
>>
>> ReactOS.Bugzilla at reactos.org wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=390
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------- Additional Comments From simona at informatik.tu-muenchen.de
>>>   
>> 2006-02-25 00:17 CET -------
>>  
>>
>>> got the same problem with the boot cd 2.9 on a travelmate 290.    
>>> shoud be the same hardware and the same crappy "insyde software" bios
>>>   
>> (v2.0 on    
>>
>>> my chip):    Press any key to boot from CD <enter>     Failed to 
>>> read the PVD.    Press any key    Failed to read the super block.    
>>> Press any key <enter>  Failed to read boot sector.    Press any key 
>>> <enter>  Failed to read boot sector.    Press any key <enter>  
>>> Unable to locate boot parition       Press any key <enter>  Error 
>>> opening boot partition for file access. <enter>   
>>> Press any key to boot from CD   
>>> And so on...  Notice that one time the any-key message appears 
>>> without waitig for any
>>>   
>> key.   
>>
>>>  
>>> And, after the first "round" it waits way shorter for any keypress 
>>> to boot
>>>   
>>
>>  
>>
>>> from CD (the time between two dots printed has decreased). I 
>>> experienced this problem with the first LiveCD version i tried (2.0 
>>> i think).
>>>  
>>>   
>>
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