Re: [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