[ros-bugs] [Bug 6551] GRUB FREELDR using floppy FREELDR.INI

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http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6551





--- Comment #2 from Bblaauw <bblaauw at gmail.com>  2011-10-13 17:24:25 CET ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Confirmed. It's a limitation of SysLinux that it (unlike GRUB) doesn't allow to
> set root.
> 
> If I add a new freeldr boot option, say, root=xxxxx, would it be ok? What
> syntax do you prefer?
> 

I'm not entirely sure. As far as I could find out when using GRUB, even
specifying root then didn't work. Ofcourse this was trying to set root to fd0,
and depending on floppy's freeldr.ini to find ReactOS on harddisk.

How would the proposed boot option be invoked? As an argument to GRUB or
Syslinux/MBOOT's "append=" or "root=" ?

My expectations are purely that FreeLDR loads its config file from the
bootmedium/filesystem it was loaded from, and afterwards uses the content of
the config file to start ReactOS from harddisk. For bootsector-style booting
this is already the case. For multiboot, not.

For GRUB and FreeLDR on a floppy it would look something like this before any
suggested options added:

title   ReactOS
root    (fd0)
kernel  /freeldr.sys DefaultOS=ReactOS TimeOut=0 


So something along the line of:
kernel  /freeldr.sys inifile=(fd0)/freeldr.ini

which would be interpreted + used by FreeLDR itself.


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