freeldr can be chainloaded by Grub4DOS

[roytam]

Today's build: http://code.google.com/p/grub4dos-chena ... z&can=2&q=
It can now supports chainloading ReactOS's freeldr.sys:

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title ReactOS
 root (hd0,0)
 chainloader /freeldr.sys

[vicmarcal]

Today's build: http://code.google.com/p/grub4dos-chena ... z&can=2&q=
It can now supports chainloading ReactOS's freeldr.sys:

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title ReactOS
 root (hd0,0)
 chainloader /freeldr.sys

Nice info!!

[Murmur]

Not quite sure what this means.

[Pisarz]

You can boot ReactOS in Grub4DOS.

[nicamarvin2005]

Who uses DOS in this day and age?

[hzlilx]

It is very often to use grub4dos to boot cdrom or usb disk or iso image. It can bring us a lot of other benifits.

[roytam1]

Who uses DOS in this day and age?

Don't be fooled by the string "DOS" in the name.
For details, please visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grub4dos#Variants
http://reboot.pro/14/

[betaluva]

so does that mean that the ReactOS "live" iso file will now boot on a flashdrive using Gru4Dos as a bootloader?

[EmuandCo]

until the kernel is being loaded and wants to access the hard drive...

[Pisarz]

But wouldn't the iso file pretend to be a normal CD drive?

[mrugiero]

But wouldn't the iso file pretend to be a normal CD drive?

No, because ReactOS needs to "know" how to process the iso file as a CD.
I already tried it with GRUB2, it can't pass from console mode, as it can't read the files inside the "CD".

[betaluva]

DOH! would it work if you extracted the "ReactOS Live" iso files to the flashdrive and then linked floader to Grub4Dos?

[Z98]

You guys keep seeming to forget that the OS needs to know how to talk over USB in order to run off a USB drive. Once the OS is up, there are no other intermediaries between it and the hardware. There is nothing else sitting between the USB interface and the OS that will magically translate USB to pretend it's a CD-ROM or something. The chainloader goes away after the OS has been loaded.

[betaluva]

i thought a "REAL" USB drivers had been recentlly added to ReactOS?

[vicmarcal]

i thought a "REAL" USB drivers had been recentlly added to ReactOS?

Nope, they are in a branch and still they didnt reach that level of code.