On 2015.01.02 01:01, Minas Abrahamyan wrote:
the problem is we do not have proper tools for it. I.e. tool just like sys.exe/sys.com http://sys.com utility was in DOS/Windows 9x or fixmbr.exe utility is for Windows 2000+ or "bootrec /fixmbr" for WinVista+.
That's not entirely true.
The Windows application Rufus [1] can install a ReactOS MBR, albeit only to an USB or VHD target (disclaimer: I am the author of Rufus). Granted, because Rufus is aimed at a general user population, this option is only made available in advanced mode (you'll need to click the white arrow in the UI before it becomes listed in the bootable types) but it is there.
If that doesn't suit your needs, I'll just point that I added ReactOS MBR support in the ms-sys [2] branch I use for Rufus [3], so it should be should be a relatively simple effort to create an ms-sys based Windows application, that installs a ReactOS MBR wherever.
Regards,
/Pete
[1] http://rufus.akeo.ie [2] http://ms-sys.sourceforge.net/ [3] https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/tree/master/src/ms-sys