caused problems. Nice work btw on the smss stuff. How much trouble do you think it would be possible to make a native mode console application in smss like the Windows recovery console? I have been thinking about doing this for the boot CD for a while but would like to make it more powerful than the Windows recovery console.
Yes this is possible (early ERD Commander versions have proven this as well as O&O BlueCon), but the recovery console of Windows is implemented in kernel mode, I believe. SMSS is usermode already.
I am working on something like this in a very early stage for Windows NT/2000/XP to resemble something like ERD Commander (e.g. 2000) and extend the functionality dynamically by native programs. I am currently stuck on keyboard input - and for textmode output I am still not sure whether a separate and specialized driver would be the better solution over a "proxy-into-kernel" to the Inbv* and similar APIs.
Oliver