Here are some changes I made to Freeldr last night. Also to ntoskrnl and the HAL. Booting takes 4 seconds now and seems much faster, it probably is a bit too.
http://www.relsoft.net/rosldr1.png http://www.relsoft.net/rosldr2.png
Best regards, Alex Ionescu
João Jerónimo Barata de Oliveira wrote:
David Hinz wrote:
I don't think such a step in our setup would be useful, because nearly nobody (of the users) wants to configure the look and feel of his bootloader, and every step you add to the setup makes it more difficult for the user.
Yes... a agree about the look and feel... but I meant the whole boot loader config, not (only) the look and feel... And there's always a solution: automatic configuration for people who don't like to concern/don't know much about boot loader configuration...
I think wo should choose a default and everybody who doesn't like it may change the settings in his freeldr.ini.
No... doing things in Microsoft's way no, thanks... I think ROS shouldn't clone that philosophy of making the things so easy even if it makes the software dangerous... because if you have no control about the boot loader configuration, usetup can break other operating system's...
It happens the same when usetup doesn't distinguishes logical from primary partitions...
João Jerónimo