AW: AW: AW: [ros-kernel] reactos on ntfs or d:
jeanmichel.123 at free.fr
jeanmichel.123 at free.fr
Fri Nov 14 15:01:25 CET 2003
Selon Michael <Michael at fritscher.net>:
> I checked this and found that freeldr can only swap actual drives, not
> partitions. However, I found that this is not necessary. I was trying
> various things and I found that ReactOS does not need to be located at
> C:\ReactOS, it can be located anywhere! I think I had previously heard
> that
> ReactOS needs to be installed at C:\ReactOS, but apparently, that is
> incorrect. I have tried installing ReactOS to different directories and
>
> different drives and it worked in all cases. This means that someone
> with a
> NTFS first partition and FAT or FAT32 second partition could install it
> on
> the second partition. All that needs to be done is to install ReactOS
> to
> the second partition and create a freeldr boot disk, since freeldr
> cannot
> boot from NTFS.
I have done a dos/win98 boot floppy. (including a boot sector and a command
line).
Then I change directory to c:\reactos (called d:\reactos on nt).
And I run a boot.bat script which run loadros.com
However, an INVALID_BOOT_DEVICE crash happen in the first reactos blue screen
page...!
More information about the Ros-kernel
mailing list