KD trace during ROS installation

[Love Nystrom]

Good afternoon gentlemen..

Can anyone tell me at what point during ROS installation KD becomes 
operative?
And if there is a way to change the default KD COM port from COM1 to COM2
in order to trace KD output during installation?

(I run my ROS tests on VMware with a com0com connection from ReactOS COM2
to my host machine, which works fine after install is complete and I can 
edit freeldr.ini,
but I'd like to be able to collect KD output during installation as well.)

(COM1 is not an option, since it's a physical port on both host and guest.)

Do I have to patch KD itself ?

Best Regards
L.

[Thomas Faber]

You should be able to simply add an
Options=...
line to the [Setup] section in boot/bootdata/bootcd.ini to modify
the setup's freeldr options. That file becomes freeldr.ini in the root
dir of the BootCD.


On 2016-09-27 12:21, Love Nystrom wrote:
>   Good afternoon gentlemen..
>  
>  Can anyone tell me at what point during ROS installation KD becomes 
>  operative?
>  And if there is a way to change the default KD COM port from COM1 to COM2
>  in order to trace KD output during installation?
>  
>  (I run my ROS tests on VMware with a com0com connection from ReactOS COM2
>  to my host machine, which works fine after install is complete and I can 
>  edit freeldr.ini,
>  but I'd like to be able to collect KD output during installation as well.)
>  
>  (COM1 is not an option, since it's a physical port on both host and guest.)
>  
>  Do I have to patch KD itself ?
>  
>  Best Regards
>  L.