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Windows 2000 Boot Sequence

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Can you describe it here?

From what get it drivers to load? NTLDR loads files? NTOSKRNL? Is it reading this from registry?

Why FreeLoader cannot boot up Windows 2000?

Would be possible to run WIndows 2000 from ex. ext2, if it could be loaded using FreeLoader?
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Re: Windows 2000 Boot Sequence

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mily wrote:Can you describe it here?

From what get it drivers to load? NTLDR loads files? NTOSKRNL? Is it reading this from registry?

Why FreeLoader cannot boot up Windows 2000?

Would be possible to run WIndows 2000 from ex. ext2, if it could be loaded using FreeLoader?
first it does the BIOS/POST tests
BIOS goes to the boot sector and boots NTLDR
NTLDR then goes to NTOSKRNL
(i forget the exact details but you can find them here http://windows.about.com/od/tipsarchive/l/aa000716b.htm )

no windows operating system support ext2, or any other "free" filesystem. it used to support HPFS (OS/2) but in NT4 it was read-only support and dropped it in 2000.
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Post by Mike »

Wikipedia also has a _ton_ of information on Windows 2000: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2000

Seems like someone found a great Win2k reference and dropped the knowlege into Wikipedia. It wasn't really copied I don't think... I watched their Win2k article go from being a small stub to an enormous informative article in the course of about two weeks >_>
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Post by Ged »

You want 'Windows Internals 4th Edition'
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Post by WaxDragon »

ged wrote:You want 'Windows Internals 4th Edition'
Yes, excellent book. I'm reading it now.
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Why FreeLoader cannot boot up Windows 2000?

Would be possible to run WIndows 2000 from ex. ext2, if it could be loaded using FreeLoader?
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Post by GvG »

Because the interface between NTLDR and Win2k isn't the same as the interface between FreeLdr and ReactOS
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Post by mily »

Any details?
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Post by GvG »

I don't have any details about the NTLDR/Win2k interface. FreeLdr passes a LOADER_PARAMETER_BLOCK to ReactOS (and populates some registry keys)
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Post by GreatLord »

NTLDR/Win2k interface are 100% undoc by ms. the struct it need is also.
more info does not exists.
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Post by navaraf »

GreatLord wrote:NTLDR/Win2k interface are 100% undoc by ms. the struct it need is also.
more info does not exists.
Wrong. We have all the info (and some of the structures are in the NDK already), but we haven't modified ROS to use it yet.
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