[ros-dev] Monthly meeting December 2012 rescheduled

[Bernd Blaauw]

Op 3-1-2013 9:01, Pierre Schweitzer schreef:

> AFAIK, PXE has been already worked by Hervé Poussineau, at least, in FreeLDR to try to provide such feature. But ReactOS was then unable to work on PXE, producing a BSOD. The code path needed wasn't implemented in the kernel.
>
> And unless I'm totally wrong, I improved some code close to the PXE support in the kernel, but never check its implementation nor implemented it if required.
> Was a long time ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm9VIawx__Y  shows ReactOS installed 
inside a ramdisk-loaded (by Syslinux) harddisk image.
The tricky bit is lack of documentation of how to do this (QEMU likely) 
and it's unknown if it's native code or some memory-driver like 
WinVBlock was added.

Relying on an optical drive connected to IDE controller as the sole 
method for installing your OS is becoming a liability.

Bernd