[ros-kernel] Freeldr issue

[Shadow Flare]

A good way to start ReactOS is to put freeldr on a floppy disk and have a 
freeldr boot disk.  This is what I use personally.  This way I can boot 
ReactOS without making a single change to my HD.  I also have it setup so it 
can boot into Windows or Linux and even swap disks and boot off of a 
different boot disk through freeldr.

I've been trying to have an option to boot into DOS (like a DOS boot disk), 
but I haven't been able to get it to load my boot sector file properly.  I 
am trying to get it to load a boot sector file named bootsect.dos located on 
my floppy disk.  If I press F8, use custom boot, and supply the information 
it works properly, but when I try adding an option for it to the menu it 
says it couldn't find the boot sector file.  I think I did have it working 
at first, but the menu option doesn't work anymore.

>From: "Jeff Smith" <beta_guy at telus.net>
>To: "ReactOS Kernel List" <ros-kernel at reactos.com>
>Subject: [ros-kernel] Freeldr issue
>Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:09:14 -0700
>
>this isn't a bug so much as a problemI installed ReactOS on a friends 
>computer, he uses Windows 98, and the setup crash just as it was writing 
>freeldr.sys file to the HD, anyways he was left without a working computer 
>because it had rewritten the master boot record, and since it could find 
>freeldr.sys my friend was screwed. I was hoping that perhaps some one could 
>find a more Windows 98 friendly way of installing ReactOS, on NT/2000/XP it 
>adds itself to the boot.ini not problems, maybe we can do something like 
>that with Windows 98.
>
>He's really interested in trying out ReactOS, I was even going to show him 
>Solitaire under ReactOS :-)
>
>(BTW I fixed the problem with a Win98 boot disk, but he wasn't able to get 
>ReactOS running.)
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