[ros-dev] Actual NTLDR boot screenshot

[Aleksey Bragin]

Nice work!

And, what is most important, very useful to understand how NTLDR  
works, which params it passes to the kernel/etc. Will be very good in  
testing my additions to FreeLdr :-)


WBR,
Aleksey Bragin.


On Oct 2, 2006, at 9:42 AM, Alex Ionescu wrote:

> Sometimes pictures speak better then commit messages, so here's the
> current boot status:
>
> http://www.tinykrnl.org/ros_by_ntldr.png
>
> It fails because our Memory Manager early-boot initialization  
> depends on
> some freeldr information. If I can/have time, I'll try to make it not
> depend on them, and/or use NTLDR structures instead.
>
> Anyways, serial debug printing works and the GDT, IDT, TSS, KPCR  
> are all
> setup, so this can now be used as a good tool for blackboxing ntldr.
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Alex Ionescu
> Project Lead, TinyKRNL
> Kernel-Mode Software Design Engineer, ReactOS