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jeez the russian bots dont stop

Use RAM boot method

That's a Pentium MMX with 80MB of RAM.

That's a Pentium MMX with 80MB of RAM.

And no CD ROM?

That's a Pentium MMX with 80MB of RAM.

We don't have pcmcia driver, so this won't work

ReactOS has been updated with new scheme of work routine and connection of the Cache manager to the Memory manager https://github.com/reactos/reactos/pull/3361 Download fresh nightly build if you want to test it

I will share ~4 hours later.

https://twitter.com/reactos/status/1356989881277427718

Now please share!!

https://twitter.com/reactos/status/1357027558915768324

Also this one!

We don't have pcmcia driver, so this won't work

bios mounts it as ide drive. I tested freedos and that one works.

And no CD ROM?

unfortunately it doesn't boot from cd-rom—

bios mounts it as ide drive. I tested freedos and that one works.

FreeDOS uses BIOS functions to access storage, so no surprise here

😂

unfortunately it doesn't boot from cd-rom—

FreeDOS uses BIOS functions to access storage, so no surprise here

so does freeldr?

I tried PCMCIA CD-ROM drive and that one doesn't work either

so does freeldr?

yes, but ReactOS won't be able to access it, as it requires driver for accessing it directly

Ah, that explains it

<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> Maybe invent a "PC-only fallback driver" that is a NT driver that under the hood runs BIOS code to interface with hardware that don't have a proper driver? 🤔

<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> (and we have the technology to run BIOS 16-bit code from 32-bit code, using the fast486 interpreter; this is also used by the x64 video driver INT10 emulation)

Well, this is interesting idea and fits for a research project too

https://twitter.com/reactos/status/1356989881277427718

Will a blog post be written about it?

Will a blog post be written about it?

Probably.

<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> https://stands.fosdem.org/stands/reactos/

<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> for anyone interesting in "seeing" the ReactOS stand at FOSDEM

Join our stand and chat room here! http://stands.fosdem.org/stands/reactos/

<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> join from https://chat.fosdem.org

https://twitter.com/reactos/status/1358097794700042244

https://twitter.com/reactos/status/1358097794700042244

ExFAT in ReactOS

Nice

How is NTFS going btw?🤔

How is NTFS going btw?🤔

i am very curious about this too! 👍

How is NTFS going btw?🤔

You will be able to use after a patch of Oleg Dubinskiy IIRC.

very nice

Nice device, what is that? 😁

Nice device, what is that? 😁

htc shift

with embedded windows phone

<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> Windoz: Is Freeldr running natively in that device? Or in an emulator?

<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> Windoz: Is Freeldr running natively in that device? Or in an emulator?

native

how do you boot it, from what boot device, and how do you prepare the image?

<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> Is this CPU x86-compatible?

that device looks fun, is it still being sold?

yes, it should be compatible, and there are photos of it running Vista

check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Shift

two CPUs of different arch 😮

<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> I wonder how long the battery holds with vista running on that phone :troll:

<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> Is this CPU x86-compatible?

yes, can run alpine linux

how do you boot it, from what boot device, and how do you prepare the image?

from usb using boot menu of bios htc shift using dd

two CPUs of different arch 😮

can run 2 os in same time

can run 2 os in same time

cool stuff, basically two devices in one case

I wonder how they share the hardware

some information probably should be at xda-developers 🙂

if its usb internally it would be straight forward

from usb using boot menu of bios htc shift using dd

dd method should work, especially with nightly builds, as it's possible to boot from USB without Ramdisk now

I wonder how they share the hardware

display can be used from both os

have an hardware switch button

https://youtu.be/FgyILBTS8BI

even Windows 10 works there

I assume there is no serial port, so it should be possible to enable FreeLdr debugging to screen

This way you will be able to see at what point it breaks loading

<Stas'M> @hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+) do we have some article on wiki how to enable early debugging in FreeLoader? (in case when it doesn't boot to menu)

https://twitter.com/reactos/status/1358801793036259331?s=19

<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> I don't think so, and if it crashes even before getting to the menu I think you're limited to edit some stuff in freeldr and modify where it displays the debug info at your convenience (here I suppose there is no available serial port on the phone :troll: )

<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> The relevant file is:

<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> https://git.reactos.org/?p=reactos.git;a=blob;f=boot/freeldr/freeldr/lib/debug.c;h=e68df9af9cfab5ea016ba38be395ba8b55a83309;hb=HEAD

<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> then you can change the hardcoded initial default values for the debug port etc.

<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> I think that for the phone the most relevant part is the definition of "DebugPort" that can be OR'ed with "SCREEN" (without quotes of course)

<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> that will tell to emit also debug output on screen.

<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> However I think that the BSOD that also appears on screen can erase the previously displayed debug info

<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> The code of the BSOD procedure is in https://git.reactos.org/?p=reactos.git;a=blob;f=boot/freeldr/freeldr/arch/i386/i386bug.c;hb=2b933529079ab126c674b539f8e2559c8ca5c8be#l128

<hbelusca (Gmunu=8PiG/c4Tmunu+)> You could edit it locally in order to reduce the amount of displayed info / shut it down and make it just display one line (instead of erasing the screen)