Freeldr Boot Floppy

solemnwarning · Post by **solemnwarning** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 2:13 am

Is There A Boot Floppy That Can Be Just Put Into The Machine With A Cpoy Of Freeldr On It Then The Freeldr On The Disk Starts ReactOS, Is There Such Disk? Cos Freeldr Is Screwed Up

uniQ · Post by **uniQ** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 2:14 am

When installing ReactOS, select "Write the bootloader to a floppy disk" when asked (Right after the file copy process).

-uniQ

solemnwarning · Post by **solemnwarning** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 11:24 am

Whenever I Try Writing Bootloader To Floppy It Keeps Saying There Is No Disk In Drive A: <_< So Is There A Freeldr Floppy Image I Can Dl?

HUMA2000 · Post by **HUMA2000** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 11:29 am

There is a bug on floppy.sys drivers that make it not working, I told it sometime ago on the irc...

packetvb · Post by **packetvb** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 7:25 pm

solemnwarning

I had the same problem after the initial one of ReactOs refusing to format the partition in FAT and corrupting the MBR.
Should have known better. No biggy though.
Anyway
http://www.reactos.com/en/content/view/full/1090
has links to the freeloader image you can write to floppy. I used is successfully with the latest release.

packetvb

A-v-S · Post by **A-v-S** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 10:30 pm

Is that also why i can't use floppies with ROS, or is it that SIS chipset.
Or does it have to do with bootable cd that a: is the bootimage of the cd?

Gasmann · Post by **Gasmann** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:02 pm

A-v-S wrote:Is that also why i can't use floppies with ROS, or is it that SIS chipset.
Or does it have to do with bootable cd that a: is the bootimage of the cd?

The bootimage is no floppy emulation, and under ReactOS it's not working for me, too.

HUMA2000 wrote:Is a bug on the floppy.sys driver, it doesn't work, at least for me on all the test i've done.

So floppy.sys is the fault.

HUMA2000 · Post by **HUMA2000** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:27 pm

Is what i think...

booter · Post by **booter** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 10:42 pm

This doesn't work on my machine. Please put in floppy...etc etc. No matter what. What good is an OS that doesn't boot? I have lilo and actually switched to grub as a friend recomended, so that I could boot reactos... but it ends up dying on me.

gives junk characters and dies.

any recomendations, since the floppy doesn't work?

Thanks
Monty

Mrkaras · Post by **Mrkaras** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 7:52 am

There is a bug on floppy.sys drivers that make it not working, I told it sometime ago on the irc...

did you also add a bugzilla listing?

would an older version of floppy.sys work around this, or is there a way to setup freeldr on a floppy without using the installer?

any plans to make reactos install on disks other than primary master (and put the boot sector there) any time soon?

Post by **ThePhysicist** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 6:04 pm

I also have that problem that ROS setup does not find my floppy. Just try several times. It might take some minutes then it works. But make sure to wait until the floppy is no more working, because ROS setup says everythings is ready and press a key to reboot, BEFORE the floppy is ready.

Post by **Jaix** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 10:18 pm

Since my dual installation doesn't boot Freeloader from HD anymore I use the floppy alternative, and it works well for me. Just a bit unprofessional not being able to boot from just HD.

Viator · Post by **Viator** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:38 am

Ive had the same problem in the past.. I havent tried reactos on real harware in a long while so MAYBE its fixed. But i doubt it they are working hard to get the core of the os working decently so i think the installer /boot manager is att eh very bottom of their list. But lets not forget WHO will try ROS if you cant install it easily and after its installed wont boot.

Freeldr Boot Floppy

Freeldr Boot Floppy

I run the floppy alternative...

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