[ros-general] Re: Freeldr UI modifications

Alex Ionescu ionucu at videotron.ca
Wed Nov 16 17:33:24 UTC 2005


Here are some changes I made to Freeldr last night. Also to ntoskrnl and 
the HAL. Booting takes 4 seconds now and seems much faster, it probably 
is a bit too.

http://www.relsoft.net/rosldr1.png
http://www.relsoft.net/rosldr2.png

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu

João Jerónimo Barata de Oliveira wrote:

>David Hinz wrote:
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>>I don't think such a step in our setup would be useful, because nearly
>>nobody (of the users) wants to configure the look and feel of his
>>bootloader, and every step you add to the setup makes it more
>>difficult for the user.
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>Yes... a agree about the look and feel... but I meant the whole boot
>loader config, not (only) the look and feel...
>And there's always a solution: automatic configuration for people who
>don't like to concern/don't know much about boot loader configuration...
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>>I think wo should choose a default and everybody who doesn't like it
>>may change the settings in his freeldr.ini.
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>No... doing things in Microsoft's way no, thanks... I think ROS
>shouldn't clone that philosophy of making the things so easy even if it
>makes the software dangerous... because if you have no control about the
>boot loader configuration, usetup can break other operating system's...
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>It happens the same when usetup doesn't distinguishes logical from
>primary partitions...
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>João Jerónimo
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