CORE-9023
- During loading and initialization of the list of operating systems
available in freeldr.ini, convert any legacy operating system entry
encountered -- they are like those in NTLDR's boot.ini file, i.e.:
ArcOsLoadPartition="LoadIdentifier" /List /of /Options
into a new operating system INI entry, like those used by default in
FreeLoader. This allows us to avoid treating this corner-case later in
different parts of the code. Also, the "BootType" value is now
determined there, only once.
- Convert the OS loaders entry-points to ARC-compatible ones, following
the "Advanced RISC Computing Specification, Version 1.2" specification
https://www.netbsd.org/docs/Hardware/Machines/ARC/riscspec.pdf
- Introduce helpers for retrieving options values from the argument vector
in a simple way.
- Simplify LoadOperatingSystem(), since now the "BootType" value has
been determined once while loading the list of OSes (see above) and
is well-defined there. Use the BuildArgvForOsLoader() helper to build
the ARC-compatible argument vector from the corresponding INI settings
for the selected operating system entry, and use it when calling the
corresponding OS loader.
- In the OS loaders, since we can now directly read the settings from
the argument vector (instead of using INI settings), we can avoid
using a bunch of fixed-size string buffers, and avoid potentially
failing IniOpenSection() calls as well.
- Simplify code in the Linux loader (and the RemoveQuotes() function).
- Add UiShowMessageBoxesInArgv() that acts on the "MessageBox=" settings
passed through the argument vector (equivalent to
UiShowMessageBoxesInSection() ).
- Use string-safe functions where needed (copy/concatenation/printf on
fixed-size buffers).
- Initialize BootPath and BootOptions buffers when fallback behaviour is not taken.
- Correctly skip all the understood whitespace (space & tabs) and the
quotes before reading the boot options when using the alternative syntax:
[Operating Systems]
section_name = "ReactOS" /bootoptions
Fixes the minor regression introduced in 370e8564 (r43875).
We now run the 1st-stage setup with a regular system hive, similarly to
what's done for the LiveCD, or for a regular ROS installation.
The ExpInTextModeSetup hacks I previously removed are now completely unneeded.
svn path=/branches/setup_improvements/; revision=74762
Split the "main" winldr.h header into the one containing global code
that actually doesn't really depend on the "windows" NT loader part,
and one that actually concerns code just for the NT Loader.
The latter goes into "ntldr".
svn path=/branches/setup_improvements/; revision=74743
