[ros-dev] Re: FreeLdr

[Samuel Bronson]

On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 22:22:05 -0500, Samuel Bronson wrote:

> I am told that the sources for FreeLdr are all okay, except for the some
> of the bootsectors having been pretty much just disassembled from MS's. Is
> this true? If so, will someone please copy them over before I die of
> impatiance? Its not like we need those bootsectors, anyway. I mean, a lot
> of us on IRC have agreed that using GRUB to load FreeLdr is probably our
> best bet for now, until someone gets around to customizing boot code from
> GRUB or FreeDOS. Anyway, we don't need to worry about that until the
> installation CD boots ;-).

crashfourit has posted a patch here:
http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1311

Unfortunately it looks like the string and rtl libs need auditing, and
we'll also need ntoskrnl stubbed out with just the headers...

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