<BieHDC> ok x86. btw we are trying to find out why livecd works but bootcd not in pxe booting. so if there is anything anyone knows, please tell us

<BieHDC> ok x86. btw we are trying to find out why livecd works but bootcd not in pxe booting. so if there is anything anyone knows, please tell us

PXE boots uses RAM disk, and only Live image could be loaded using it

<BieHDC> i checked the structures of both and they are pretty much the same. thats why i am confused

Also keep in mind that ReactOS RAM disk driver works in read-only mode only

<BieHDC> well i dont want to install to ramdisk, so...

Well, I don't know how it exactly works 😅

<BieHDC> the livecd maps itself to X: and the normal hds are accessible. it has trouble finding the files, so we are not trying to find out where it looks for them

Show your best meme !

<BieHDC> https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/480317303339089930/489453140916305960/notmycode.jpg

<BieHDC> https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/480317303339089930/489453140916305960/notmycode.jpg

We all know that the code works by magic 😏

<BieHDC> is nsfw allowed?

I don't think so

Maybe @jeditobe knows better

<BieHDC> then you miss out on some funny

@x86corez Laptop has a COM port, but i don't have the needed cable, also got an screenshot of the USB stuff

oh wait, i sent in the wrong view

Yup

gonna turn it on again

OS takes a while to boot

i shouldn't have installed Windows 10 on a 2006 era laptop xD

i shouldn't have installed Windows 10 on a 2006 era laptop xD

Indeed 😅

it was what i had when i setup over a year ago

i got that laptop with a damaged HDD, so i needed an OS

Thanks!

<BieHDC> sorry to interrupt, but how do i enable these TRACE() calls again? DBGDEFAULTCHANNEL(WINDOWS);

<BieHDC> i am inside freeldr btw, so runtime enable isnt the thing i am looking for

@BieHDC to enable freeldr debugging, you'll need to uncomment some defines somewhere in its code (I don't remember exactly which ones)

<BieHDC> maybe yolo it and do #undef ndebug?

<BieHDC> does Brian Palmer still exist? apparently he wrote most of the code

<BieHDC> what if i told you that you can now install reactos over pxe and all it takes is one line of code change?

<BieHDC> what if i told you that you can now install reactos over pxe and all it takes is one line of code change?

😮

Propose a PR!

<BieHDC> i will tell fraizer

<BieHDC> https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/480317303339089930/489504039596195840/fix.png

<BieHDC> it would not let me send the text

It's a hack! 😅

Better to implement that function that is located at line 1280

<Fraizeraust> Yeah... I'm wondering of what unimplemented IOCTL is complaining about.

<Fraizeraust> Albeit that "fix" made ReactOS working on PXE, it basically ignored the unimplemented IOCTL and some things might not work properly.

+1

That's why I call it a hack

<BieHDC> its a hack that lets us install rn and yea imo it a hack worth it

<BieHDC> its this IOCTL IOCTLVOLUMEGETGPTATTRIBUTES

<BieHDC> would it be fine if we isolate that one case?

Maybe

<BieHDC> and this one IOCTLDISKGETLENGTHINFO

<BieHDC> these are the 2 offenders. i just typed cont into the debugger and it installed fine i will work something out with fraizer

<BieHDC> how is licensing handled with the winbtrfs driver? because it turns out we could use their code for lookup, but i dont know if that will get us in trouble

<BieHDC> how is licensing handled with the winbtrfs driver? because it turns out we could use their code for lookup, but i dont know if that will get us in trouble

Cc @extravert34

https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs LGPL-3.0

<BieHDC> i know that already, but can we use their code for logic lookup?

what do you mean by "logic lookup"?

ReactOS includes WinBtrfs

<BieHDC> githubdotcom/maharmstone/btrfs/blob/master/src/volume.c#L561 githubdotcom/maharmstone/btrfs/blob/master/src/volume.c#L630 we want to implement these 2 functions for reactos and he did already work these out, so we just need to translate them

AFAIK you can use everything you want from this driver if you publish modified code with GPL-compatible license

but winbtrfs code will hardly help you with ramdisk driver

<BieHDC> which reactos is, nice

<BieHDC> its the ioctls which are missing. if you stub them, the setup works

<BieHDC> so we hope by implementing these, we get a winner

let's see :)

well

is gonna take a while to try newest vgal live USB on all USB bootable laptops

even longer when i start with desktops

pretty much anything from Pentium II/III all the way to Core 2

oh yeah

some of them are already tested

ethier with the current 0.4.9.1 or the previous 0.4.9

i might retest the ones tested with the 0.4.9 one

Acer Travelmate 4000 failed...

You have so many hardware, it would be nice to communicate with Vadim directly 😅