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