CORE-19691
Removing the `livecd_start.cmd` entry also caused the "Profiles/Default User/My Documents"
directory to not be created in the LiveImage. When booting it, this
caused explorer.exe to hang while loading the desktop, for **some**
(but not all) non-english environments.
(Technically it should instead ignore the non-existing directory if it
cannot create or open it, or drop an error then continue execution...
But that's another bug for another time!)
Adding back the creation of this directory fixes the hang.
CORE-9069, CORE-13525, RELEASE-11
This new BootCD contains the functionality of both the original bootcd
(text-mode 1st-stage installer) and the livecd (that will include the
1st-stage GUI installer later).
Our separate livecd ISOs become obsolete, and this completely removes
the need for the so-called "hybridcd" ISO.
Some details:
- The "hybridcd" build target is completely removed, since now the new
BootCD *is* basically what we used to call "hybridcd".
- The "livecd" build target is kept so far (to minimize the code changes),
but internally I start to refer to it as "LiveImage", and is reduced
to a minimum.
A minimal non-bootable "liveimg.iso" is built (but currently not
included within the BootCD). Its purpose will be to implement the
"ReactOS Live" functionality as a RAMDISK.
(We currently don't support other file formats apart from ISO and
flat disk for a RAMDISK).
The "ReactOS Live" (non-RAMDISK) is implemented by adding to the
BootCD file tree the files from the LiveImage.
These files add two root directories, "Profiles" and "reactos"
(which is the SystemRoot for the non-ramdisk LiveImage).
- The minimal text-mode ReactOS installation used for the 1st-stage
installer, including USETUP itself, and the executable for the
1st-stage GUI installer and the reactos.cab (installation source),
are moved to the root directory called "i386" (ideally, one directory
per architecture).
- The "bootcdregtest" target, i.e. the ISOs we feed our testbots with,
are left untouched, i.e. they are only constituted of the 1st-stage
text-mode installation only, but placed in a per-architecture root
directory ("i386", etc. as for the bootcd).
- Remove the ACPI APIC/SMP entries from bootcd.ini. They will be made
available via the Advanced Boot Options F8 menu in Debug builds, for
testing purposes only, in a subsequent commit.
This commit is based upon an older SVN one:
svn path=/branches/setup_improvements/; revision=75273
CORE-11954, CORE-16216, CORE-17518, CORE-17604, CORE-17977
The mkisofs options are quite long and repetitive (mostly duplicated 4 times
for the current 4 different ISO targets), and are also hard to read (i.e.
which group of options go together).
Reorganize the mkisofs ISO boot-related options in different thematic sets
and make them modular too. This also allow to conditionally add/remove ISO
boot entries for different platforms, for example:
- BIOS-based PC builds (only x86/x64) get the BIOS bootsector (excluded from IA64 and ARM32/64);
- EFI-based architectures get the EFI boot entry.
Based on a suggestion by Mark Jansen (see PR #4407).
Dedicated to Justin Miller ;)
Reverts #6551
This caused the non-English programs menu
items to not be populated.
JIRA issue: CORE-12328 will have to be
reopened afterwards and approached
differently
JIRA issue: CORE-19652 will get resolved
Create the folder TEMP in X:\reactos so now we can match current livecd
environment variables TMP and TEMP
can be seen as a part of solving CORE-13041
The use-case for that is:
copying the livecd folder structure directly to writable media as USB sticks or memory cards,
will work then out-of-the-box without any other change.
First batch of changes to implement a UEFI version of freeldr:
- Compile freeldr as EFI binary on top of the existing loader.
- Stub out various functions so we can create a UEFI machine-type in freeldr.
- Implement all of the video output functions so we can display a pretty freeldr BSoD :)
Hermès Bélusca-Maïto