To install ReactOS on a USB stick and use it.
How far we are of it?
Does FreeLdr recognizes USB as installable disks?
Someone who test it...
Could Vgal do the same work as:
http://vgal.ru.com/category/reactos/
ReactOS (USB) TO GO
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Re: ReactOS (USB) TO GO
Rufus is an easy way to create bootable USB drives from an iso file. I really don't think USB booting works in ReactOS yet. But you could try it and see!
Re: ReactOS (USB) TO GO
USB booting works, that's a very simplistic way to boot an OS, you don't need actual USB drivers to do it.milon wrote:Rufus is an easy way to create bootable USB drives from an iso file. I really don't think USB booting works in ReactOS yet. But you could try it and see!
IIRC ReactOS Live is a little quirky, I don't know how it'll behave on USB, but it should work. I've never used ReactOS Live but from what I hear, it really just prefers to be installed fully.
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Re: ReactOS (USB) TO GO
What, you don't need USB for it?! Who told you that? Tell this a kernel and drivers communicating to your hardware and say that again.
ReactOS is still in alpha stage, meaning it is not feature-complete and is recommended only for evaluation and testing purposes.
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Re: ReactOS (USB) TO GO
I thought UEFI or something could boot from USB, so that the OS didn't strictly need drivers to boot. Maybe I'm confused with something else.EmuandCo wrote:What, you don't need USB for it?! Who told you that? Tell this a kernel and drivers communicating to your hardware and say that again.
Re: ReactOS (USB) TO GO
BIOS could do this too. UEFI should.
But for the OS not having its own USB stack support, there should have been a special means to load everything needed into RAM, not only what an ordinary boot process loads. Thus, for a "live" OS session, kind of "ramdisk" should have been prepared and then loaded (by the loader through BIOS/UEFI).
For the OS installation on a USB mass storage device and making it a boot device and using it, it's not possible without the OS supporting USB. Because using BIOS calls to access its own boot device at run time is a very bad idea, and UEFI provides such a support only for the Boot Services time, it all gets invalidated after ExitBootServices() call made by the OS loader as a final step in taking over control of the system.
But for the OS not having its own USB stack support, there should have been a special means to load everything needed into RAM, not only what an ordinary boot process loads. Thus, for a "live" OS session, kind of "ramdisk" should have been prepared and then loaded (by the loader through BIOS/UEFI).
For the OS installation on a USB mass storage device and making it a boot device and using it, it's not possible without the OS supporting USB. Because using BIOS calls to access its own boot device at run time is a very bad idea, and UEFI provides such a support only for the Boot Services time, it all gets invalidated after ExitBootServices() call made by the OS loader as a final step in taking over control of the system.
Re: ReactOS (USB) TO GO
It doesn't haven't to be a Live version if we're running off USB. But ReactOS really needs the USB stack & drivers first.
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