Why it is not mentioned in changelog?
 
03.01.2014, 15:09, "Bernd Blaauw" <bbla...@home.nl>:

Pete Batard schreef op 3-1-2014 3:59:

 If you want to test, you can pick the latest ALPHA from:
 http://rufus.akeo.ie/downloads/

Awesome, will test using USB2 ports.

 Currently, the way this works is through installing Syslinux (v4.07) and
 mboot.c32 so that setupldr.sys can then be invoked (see the
 /syslinux.cfg created by Rufus on the drive).

 Also, for the time being, only setupldr.sys will be referenced (no
 freeldr.sys) on account that:

FreeLDR as multiboot-kernel only looks at freeldr.ini at C:\ , no idea
if your created USB stick counts as C: or A:.
Also ReactOS might write freeldr.ini in some special way on FAT drives,
I've never been able to open/modify it using a DOS text editor.

 1. The Syslinux's menu.c32 file is rather large, and I want to keep
 Rufus small, so I don't want to embed it in the application (which is
 also the mais reason why Rufus doesn't include native GRUB support). But
 this means that user selection from a menu is not available.

 2. When testing, I couldn't get freeldr.sys to do much when booted from
 USB... though that was most likely because I hadn't actually installed
 ReactOS anywhere.

Smallest I've gotten FreeLDR is through using
SYSLINUX -> MEMDISK -> FLOPPY.GZ where floppy.gz is a compressed ReactOS
startup diskette image. SYSLINUX -> MBOOT.C32 -> FREELDR.GZ might also
work instead.

 Still, I'm hoping that making the creation of a bootable UFD easier for
 ReactOS will help encourage more people to test it and help the project.

I've always hoped for Syslinux -> Memdisk/GRUB -> ReactOS.ISO/IMG simply
to overcome lack of mass storage controllers drivers by running from RAM.

 Of course, I'm also open to suggestions to try to improve support for
 ReactOS in Rufus, if you want something specific. For instance, I should
 point out that the syslinux.cfg created by Rufus is written before any
 of the ISO files are copied over. Thus, if the ReactOS ISOs were to
 include their own syslinux.cfg & menu.c32/vesamenu.c32, it would be very
 easy to provide menu selection for the user when booting from USB, even
 as the ISOs are not Syslinux/Isolinux based.

So right now the installer ISO works but not the LiveCD/USB?
[ https://www.reactos.org/getbuilds ] with rev 61493

Thanks for having implemented the support Pete! :)
Have fun with HaikuOS :)

best wishes for 2014,

Bernd

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