Re: [ros-dev] Building Freeloader

[Steven Edwards]

--- Phillip Susi [e-mail] wrote:
> I seem to remember you added a special multiboot header to the kernel 
> image but it looks to me like ntoskrnl.exe has a standard PE image header.

Alex changed this. ntoskrnl now is PE loaded from freeldr. I think it was needed for dynamic ACPI
and 3GB support.

Thanks
Steven

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[Phillip Susi]

Steven Edwards wrote:
> Alex changed this. ntoskrnl now is PE loaded from freeldr. I think it was needed for dynamic ACPI
> and 3GB support.
>
> Thanks
> Steven

Ahh, so why is freeloader complaining about the missing multiboot header?

Hartmut Birr wrote:
> Why do you not use the boot cd and let reactos do the job of creating
> and formatting the partition and installing all files and freeloader?
> Hartmut

Well, I was just going to copy the updated files I just built over the 
existing ones in the qemu image, but the disk was full, so I decided to 
enlarge it.  That required a reformat which led me to the problems.  It 
may very well work if I used the boot image to have reactos format the 
virtual drive, but it should work with mtools as well.  If it doesn't I 
either need to figure out what I'm doing wrong or find the bug in the 
code and fix it.

[Alex Ionescu]

Phillip Susi wrote:
> Steven Edwards wrote:
> > Alex changed this. ntoskrnl now is PE loaded from freeldr. I think it 
> > was needed for dynamic ACPI
> > and 3GB support.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Steven
>
> Ahh, so why is freeloader complaining about the missing multiboot header?

Are you running Freeloader 2.0?

PS. WB!

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu