[ros-kernel] Freeldr issue

[Brian Palmer]

Can you please post the contents of your freeldr.ini file?

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> [mailto:ros-kernel-bounces at reactos.com] On Behalf Of Shadow Flare
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 3:10 PM
> To: ros-kernel at reactos.com
> Subject: Re: [ros-kernel] Freeldr issue
> 
> 
> 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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