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Floor 16 Posted 2005-03-12 00:00 ·  中国 河南 南阳 联通
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Brother aria, this indeed had plans before, but it wasn't carried on later. The reasons are as follows:

1. Chris's findroot and preset_menu patches can already meet the needs, so the need for command-line parameters in boot.ini is not so urgent anymore. To be honest, without Chris's patches, I would generally consider having GRLDR recognize the command-line parameters in boot.ini.

2. It's estimated that it won't be that easy, or rather quite difficult, to have GRLDR recognize the command-line parameters in boot.ini. Because it's obvious that Microsoft hasn't made any information public here, and it all depends on HACK. Since it's HACK, there are two possibilities: success or failure. When the把握 isn't very great, I won't easily go for HACK. Because spending time and energy and getting a failed result is something no programmer is willing to see. With those energies and time, one could do other, more beneficial things.

3. Even if the HACK is successful, it may not be universal. It might be that I found the command-line parameters on my machine, but not on others' machines, because there are no norms to follow. Especially when Microsoft's NTLDR is upgraded, these HACKs may all become invalid, and one has to re-HACK, with others always running ahead and us always struggling to follow behind. It's too tiring and not worth doing.

4. Command-line parameters are only effective for boot.ini. Another important aspect of our GRLDR is that it needs to be installed to the MBR. A hard-won HACK result is only useful for BOOT.ini, but not for our key object, which is the MBR. So our hack isn't very worthwhile. That is, the hack is only a bit useful for calls on boot.ini, which is completely only beneficial to Windows users, and the benefit isn't very great, so its significance isn't that big either.

These are roughly the main reasons. Thank you for your care all the time. Feel free to put forward any opinions or suggestions. Also, thank you here in advance for the great help you provided during my development of GRLDR. Without your help, GRLDR wouldn't have the outcome it has today.
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Floor 17 Posted 2005-03-14 00:00 ·  中国 天津 南开区 联通
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Hehe, you're welcome. Regarding the boot.ini parameter issue, I also think it's not worth researching. I took a look at the leaked source code of Winnt4, and those parameters in memory might be as you said, uncertain. I will definitely raise any problems or suggestions.
Floor 18 Posted 2005-03-19 00:00 ·  中国 河北 石家庄 中移铁通
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Is there now MAXDOS?
Floor 19 Posted 2005-03-19 00:00 ·  中国 河北 石家庄 中移铁通
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