[ros-dev] Re: [ros-bugs] [Bug 390] Freeloader Execption: DIVIDE BYZERO

[Brandon Turner]

Taken from Ged's email ealier:
"First of all, we must take the authors word on whether something needs 
auditing or not."

If you say it is clean, it is good enough for me.  Lets move on.

Brandon


Brian Palmer wrote:

>Why are you wasting your time writing a completely new untested boot sector
>when FreeLoader already has a fully working fully tested, stable, and
>debugged boot sector? I know, I know - you're going to say that it is a
>reverse engineered Microsoft boot sector. There are actually two - one is a
>reverse engineered Microsoft boot sector, and the other is FreeLoaders.
>Anyone who actually compares the source side by side can see that
>FreeLoaders boot sector code is *not* a copy of Microsofts. They are vastly
>different. I keep waiting for the auditors to do their job and audit this
>piece of code, but they don't seem to be doing it. The point is, we don't
>need another boot sector when, as soon as the code gets audited, the
>original boot sector will be just fine.
>
>BTW - where can I download your boot sector code? It should be audited just
>as much as the original boot sector code, since you've undoubtedly looked at
>the FreeLoader & boot sector sources to see how things are done.
>
>-Brian
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ros-dev-bounces at reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-bounces at reactos.org] On
>Behalf Of Jerry
>Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 4:42 PM
>To: ros-dev at reactos.org
>Subject: [ros-dev] Re: [ros-bugs] [Bug 390] Freeloader Execption: DIVIDE
>BYZERO
>
>I had this same problem when developing my bootsector. When I reset the 
>bootdrive before I jumped to freeldr the problem went away. I think that 
>the first thing that freeldr needs to is to reset the boot drive before 
>it moves on.
>
>ReactOS.Bugzilla at reactos.org wrote:
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>>http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=390
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>>------- Additional Comments From simona at informatik.tu-muenchen.de
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>2006-02-25 00:17 CET -------
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>>got the same problem with the boot cd 2.9 on a travelmate 290.    
>>shoud be the same hardware and the same crappy "insyde software" bios
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>(v2.0 on   
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>>my chip):    
>>Press any key to boot from CD <enter>  
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>>Failed to read the PVD.    
>>Press any key    
>>Failed to read the super block.    
>>Press any key <enter>  
>>Failed to read boot sector.    
>>Press any key <enter>  
>>Failed to read boot sector.    
>>Press any key <enter>  
>>Unable to locate boot parition    
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>>Press any key <enter>  
>>Error opening boot partition for file access. <enter>  
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>>Press any key to boot from CD  
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>>And so on...  
>>Notice that one time the any-key message appears without waitig for any
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>key.  
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>>And, after the first "round" it waits way shorter for any keypress to boot
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>>from CD (the time between two dots printed has decreased). 
>>I experienced this problem with the first LiveCD version i tried (2.0 i 
>>think). 
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