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Author SHA1 Message Date
Brian Palmer
ac99fa1fdc Changes in v1.3 (6/5/2002)
- Added protected mode exception handling in case FreeLoader crashes
- Reworked memory manager to use all of extended memory
- Reworked UI code, now supports multiple text-mode resolutions

svn path=/trunk/; revision=3010
2002-06-06 05:58:37 +00:00
Brian Palmer
467e8c55cc Changes in v1.2 (4/30/2002)
- All Linux kernels are supported (zImage & bzImage, loaded high & low)
- Initrd support
- FreeLoader now compiles under Mingw32 instead of just DJGPP, but
  the Mingw32 linker seems to output a corrupt binary.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=2899
2002-04-30 06:26:33 +00:00
Brian Palmer
a28d727f4e Fixed FAT short file name buffer overflow that was causing some long filenames not to work correctly.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=2892
2002-04-28 20:31:42 +00:00
Brian Palmer
a9450f5a72 FreeLoader version 1.0!
Supports booting Linux bzImage kernels
No initrd support (yet)
No zImage support (yet)
No ext2 file system support (yet)
Forward slashes '/' as well as backslashes '\' can be used for path names in FAT & ISO-9660
Fixed bug in LBA code where is was only reading one sector even if you asked for more
Fixed bug in FAT code, was also present in ISO-9660 code

svn path=/trunk/; revision=2867
2002-04-25 02:48:15 +00:00
Brian Palmer
25ca1a385c Rewrote .ini file code - should be much faster (especially in bochs)
Leading whitespace in a line is now ignored
Changed .ini file comment character from '#' to ';' to be compatible with MS
There is still a mysterious memory allocation failed bug however!?

svn path=/trunk/; revision=2741
2002-03-20 00:39:32 +00:00
Eric Kohl
60a1a5d26d Updated for booting from C:
svn path=/trunk/; revision=2375
2001-11-16 20:27:59 +00:00
Brian Palmer
3662f1f720 BIOS Int 13h Extensions Support
New .ini file format (sort of) - changed some parameter names, etc.
More efficient .ini file parsing code
More efficient use of memory, smaller image file
Total rewrite of file system code (the old stuff sucked)
VFAT Long File Names now supported!
ReactOS is the only boot type supported currently, disabled all others (temporarily)

svn path=/trunk/; revision=2372
2001-11-15 07:48:33 +00:00
Eric Kohl
4c1911c2ca Use ARC-Path to boot ReactOS
svn path=/trunk/; revision=1952
2001-06-08 17:46:52 +00:00
Brian Palmer
afdf923c65 Initial revision
svn path=/trunk/; revision=1904
2001-05-15 03:50:25 +00:00