[ros-dev] Loading ReactOS from Floopy

Ge van Geldorp gvg at reactos.com
Thu Nov 18 01:04:36 CET 2004


> From: Bernd Blaauw
> 
> Ge van Geldorp schreef:
> 
> >Just about the first thing that FreeLdr does is switch to protected 
> >mode. To read from disk(ette) it temporarily drops down to real mode 
> >and issues an int 0x13.
>
> Is it possible to let it first read in freeldr.ini before 
> switching to protected mode and doing everything else?

Anything is possible if you have the source I guess.... It would be a rather
big change since the current filesystem code uses the memory manager. And
then there's the new Xbox code which is entered in protected mode (no real
mode there at all).

Gé van Geldorp.




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