Sorry, i really should not use this mail program to post anything until this anoying bug has been fixed!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Fuchs" martin-fuchs@gmx.net To: ros-general@reactos.com Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 1:26 AM Subject: Re: Explorer progress - Working in real hardware
On 24.12.2003 00:41:51 gge wrote:
Explorer runs in real hardware based on reactos+explorer build dated 23-12-03 and the last Dlld from Filip site. The machine is not powerful ( Pentium I 233 ) and ros VGA driver is used. After some testing , i will update about the reactos/explorer behavior in such condition . But for sure it is much slower than Win98
Well, I think this is mostly because of the video driver. But I expect, there is much optimization work to do, until ROS will be comparable to XP's or even WIN98's speed. Beginning from file system caching over registry access to shell functions.
Regards,
Martin
Well, I think this is mostly because of the video driver. But I expect, there is much optimization work to do, until ROS will be comparable to XP's or even WIN98's speed. Beginning from file system caching over registry access to shell functions.
to eliminate any disk subsystem bottlenecks (and the need for a harddisk) I would like to run ReactOS in main memory, from a ramdisk. has anyone had success with that?
what I have done is the following: 1)custom cdrom or network bootloader (isolinux.bin / pxelinux.bin) 2)ramdrive kernel (memdisk , see same package from syslinux.zytor.com ) 3)disk image (floppy or harddisk image), Gzipped if desired. 4)create a cdrom.
ad 1) http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/syslinux-2.08.zip ad 2) idem, has support for Bochs's harddisk files. ad 3) cdrv.img from your Bochs's ReactOS 1.5 download. works OK in Bochs. ad 4) cdrom image can be obtained from http://www.fdos.org/ripcord/beta9rc4/ROSinRAM.iso [6.3MB]
basically, ReactOS from cdrv.img boots OK, loads FreeLDR, does not hang (time is adjusted). If I make a selection between ReactOS or ReactOS (Debug), I get a hanging virtual machine on "Detecting Hardware"
goal is to have a diskless ReactOS running on my Pentium 100Mhz / 80MB ram, where ReactOS is obtained from a PXE server (using network card's bootrom). as these are home-computers, thin-client is not enough (main computers may be offline), so I like to run my OS in RAM.
I have no idea why FreeLOADER hangs (boot.bat is also no success, I get a 'blank' blue screen ).
feedback welcome
Bernd Blaauw
On 24.12.2003 10:55:04 Bernd Blaauw wrote:
Well, I think this is mostly because of the video driver. But I expect, there is much optimization work to do, until ROS will be comparable to XP's or even WIN98's speed. Beginning from file system caching over registry access to shell functions.
to eliminate any disk subsystem bottlenecks (and the need for a harddisk) I would like to run ReactOS in main memory, from a ramdisk. has anyone had success with that?
Btw: Which PIO/DMA mode is using the IDE driverin ReactOS? It makes a big difference between PIO0 and UDMA5.
Martin
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