just one note... which image would be the "eligible" to be the "loader"? HEAD (which is constantly changing) or maybe latest public published release (which, as of now, is 0.3.14, too old for testing)?

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Hermès BÉLUSCA - MAÏTO <hermes.belusca@sfr.fr> wrote:
Great! Now our own bootloader (FreeLoader) must be adapted to boot-up PXE
images (instead of using PXELINUX).

Hermès

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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




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