Re: [Freedos-kernel] EXT3 support

On August 26, 2016 12:26:52 AM PDT, Eric Auer wrote: > >Hi HPA! The boot sector takes a BIOS drive number of the >to-be-booted drive from the MBR, which can take it from >the BIOS. There also are patches to take the MBR item by >pointer from the MBR, but those are not used by

Re: [Freedos-kernel] EXT3 support

Hi HPA! The boot sector takes a BIOS drive number of the to-be-booted drive from the MBR, which can take it from the BIOS. There also are patches to take the MBR item by pointer from the MBR, but those are not used by default. So I guess the kernel could take the drive number from a boot sector,

Re: [Freedos-kernel] EXT3 support

On 01/13/16 08:33, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi HPA and Joao, > > support for EXT3 in the kernel would indeed be large/complex. > > Only supporting EXT3 READS already would take circa 10 kB of > code, taking the size of the EXT2/3/4 GRUB module as example. > > I like MEMDISK bootable ramdisk style:

Re: [Freedos-kernel] EXT3 support

On 17-11-2015 05:36, H. Peter Anvin wrote: A TSR redirector would be great for assigning an EXT3 drive to a drive >letter for standard I/O operations. However a kernel driver would >allow freeDOS to boot and run from an EXT3 journaling partition, I can >only imagine that the benefits from this

Re: [Freedos-kernel] EXT3 support

Hi HPA and Joao, support for EXT3 in the kernel would indeed be large/complex. Only supporting EXT3 READS already would take circa 10 kB of code, taking the size of the EXT2/3/4 GRUB module as example. I like MEMDISK bootable ramdisk style: MEMDISK can be booted by boot loaders which are able

Re: [Freedos-kernel] EXT3 support

On 08/14/15 15:00, Till wrote: > > Quoting João Jerónimo : > >> Wouldn't it be better to use a redirector? This can be done with a TSR. >> >> João Jerónimo >> > > > A TSR redirector would be great for assigning an EXT3 drive to a drive > letter for standard I/O

Re: [Freedos-kernel] EXT3 support

The basic idea is to start with a fresh install of an Ubuntu LTS server. Then a Script could install all the rest. I am already doing this on a project and it works very well, all scripts are posted on github: https://github.com/alainm/nfas (sorry, it's in portuguese due to local colaborators)

Re: [Freedos-kernel] EXT3 support

The only problem with virtual box is that it isn't accessible. Any folks using screen readers are likely to need dosemu instead of virtual box. It may work under orca, but I've not tested that here. Just a point of interest for those who need/want to know.

Re: [Freedos-kernel] EXT3 support

Quoting Alain Mouette ala...@pobox.com: Why not use all that effort to run FreeDOS over Linux? Dosemu works very well... It has already been done in the past, mas it was slackware based and as soon as released had no mantainance, so it went dead. *) you get all the drivers to run on any

Re: [Freedos-kernel] EXT3 support

I am interested in writing a new driver, one that would allow you to boot and run dos on a EXT3 partition. booting from EXT3 would require to make EXT3 part of the kernel. not going to happen. otoh there is virtually no disadvantage to have a loadable TSR to make EXT3 available as a

Re: [Freedos-kernel] EXT3 support

On 8/14/2015 12:38 AM, Daniel G. wrote: Greetings, I was reading the FreeDOS development wish-list and adding ext3 support to the FreeDOS kernel is on the list. Is anyone working on this at this time? Doubtful. It's more likely just wishful thinking from someone who doesn't know what all

Re: [Freedos-kernel] EXT3 support

Hiren's BootCD has had something called Paragon Mount Everything 3.0. Or are you interested in writing a new driver? On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/14/2015 12:38 AM, Daniel G. wrote: Greetings, I was reading the FreeDOS development wish-list and

Re: [Freedos-kernel] EXT3 support

Maybe, but ext3 was designed as a multithreading FS. The multithreading becomes single threading so performance would far worse, and possibly even worse than FAT16/32 or ext3 over redirector. On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Till oran...@mygrande.net wrote: Quoting João Jerónimo