[ros-dev] multiboot.S patch in need of review, please

Jonathan Wilson jonwil at tpgi.com.au
Thu Jan 27 11:40:43 CET 2005


> I think freeldr shoudl be modified to PE load the boot drivers and 
> ntoskrnl, instead of just memory dumping. This should remove most of the 
> bss hacks which use kernel_base, and the rest should use whatever 
> freeldr pushes on the loader_block. For now, we were simply testing some 
> things, and Royce's patch still helps a lot.
How does windows do this?
I gather it does this through NTLDR but what does NTLDR do here?
Whatever it is, perhaps we should be doing the same...



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