[ros-kernel] Let's kill BOOT.BAT

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For some reason the only way I can actually boot ReactOS is to use
boot.bat, anyway.

I've been unable to boot from the ReactOS CD for real hardware for some
reason - it always hangs when it's about to boot.


Original Message:
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From: Mark IJbema mark at ijbema.xs4all.nl
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:17:50 +0100
To: ros-kernel at reactos.com
Subject: Re: [ros-kernel] Let's kill BOOT.BAT


On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:02:20AM +0100, Ge van Geldorp wrote:
> > From: theUser BL
> > To: ros-general at reactos.com
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Yesterday I wanted to try ReactOS on my computer. I downloaded the 
> > 0.2.0-binaries and started aboot:
> > 
> > --------------------------------------
> > 
> > Microsoft(R) Windows98
> >    (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1999.
> > 
> > C:\>cd reactos
> > 
> > C:\REACTOS>aboot
> 
> Judging from the reports on mailing lists, forum and IRC the BOOT.BAT
> method of booting ReactOS seems to cause problems for lots of people.
> I'd like to put it out of its misery and kill BOOT.BAT for the 0.2.2
> release, switching to FreeLdr exclusively.
> 
> I know some people are using BOOT.BAT because they don't want to let
> ReactOS setup mess with their boot sector, so we'll have to provide an
> alternate solution for that. Are there any other reasons for using
> BOOT.BAT (speak up now or loose BOOT.BAT forever....)?
> 
> The alternate solution if you don't want to mess with your bootsector is
> to create a boot floppy. Vizzini is almost done with the floppy driver,
> so it should be feasible to do that  (although we would probably need to
> require a pre-low-level-formatted floppy for now).
> 
> So, any comments? Of course, I'm especially interested in what Eric
> thinks about this.

If some people still use it i think we should keep it. Why not let it
start with a lots of echo's with a major warning that use of boot.bat is
unsupported and known to caus problems, and then a pause ('press any key
to continue')?

Mark
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