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Hello,
I am trying to make a small OS as a hobby. But I am not sure how can I code / use (and which one) a bootloader that transfers control over to my kernel. Can anyone guide me / suggest a simple bootloader with an example of kernel control handover ?
Thanks
Ashish
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also, check out grub and lilo, the linux bootloaders. since they're open source, you can look at their code, and probably get advice from their authors too.
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linux user: #333298
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Hi,
You are confusing between boot-loader & OS.
(1) Bootloader is the initial stage program which will ultimately load final OS. It is of fixed size(512 bytes). But if your boot-loader goes beyond this size you can cut this in pieces leaving the intent of bootloader intact. Boot -loader is basically written in assembly(8086 or higher).
(2) Os is....you know what it is.
So once you power ON your system; it will perform normal BIOS routines & then cheks for boot sequence. According to boot sequence it will verify first sector (512 bytes)for validity & if it is valid it will load that sector in RAM. And later pass control to it. Here starts the job of boot-loader which should take care of loading all imp files reqd for loading OS ultimately.
if you have more doubts feel free to contact me.
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Hello,
I'm writing for a misterious event happening at our company's windows 2003 sbs server, it keeps shutting down by itself on approximately every 1h and 40mins a kind of force shut down with no reason which seriously troubles most of our client server specialized software hosted on the server,
from the Event viewer I get this message
Event ID: 513 (0x0201)
Type: Success Audit
Description: Windows NT is shutting down.
All logon sessions will be terminated by this shutdown.
My question is, what is causing this forced shut down of the server, and how to avoid it 
Thanks for your time and attention, any advice on fixing the problem is appreciated!
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I never use windows server 2003 but I have some experience in windows 2000. Try to check:
1. Try to check the Task schedule, there any task that assign to shutdown the computer after log on to windows.
2. Check the logon script, did you specifies the logon script to manage the computer to be shutdown after log on.
3. Try to use any virus tool to scan for the virus. Because in windows 2000 or windows xp pro, when it attack by virus blaster it will shutdown the computer and restart in every one minute. To avoid this you need to search for the specific cleaning tool (I use norton fix tool at that time) to clean the virus. Or you can check the windows registry, for the start application, to see which service or application that you might identify as the virus.
4. Check the status of the service, and try to identify the function of each service. There is might be a service that cause the problem to your server and try to stop it.
Good luck!!!
A thousand mile of journey, begin with the first step.
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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Hi, I just install windows 98 for the PC at my home. After I install it, i notes that the command "Install new fonts" from the font director of windows is not appear on the File menu. Normally in windows 98 when we browse to the font folder, the content of the folder have to change in order to make it suitable with font task (such as install font, sort...). But when I browse to the the font folder, it display as the normal folder. Does anyone know how to solve the problem???
A thousand mile of journey, begin with the first step.
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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Sometimes the DESKTOP.INI file which controls how the fonts folder behaves can get deleted or become corrupted. TweakUI[^] can fix this problem - go to the Repair tab.
If this has happened I suggest checking the hard disk is OK. Windows 98 doesn't have a transactional filesystem, so power failures can sometimes cause disk corruption.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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Thank you very much for your support. Now the problem already solved. Thank you.
A thousand mile of journey, begin with the first step.
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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Hello,
I have windows XP, When i click on "Connect" button of dialup connection with internet, it displays a message "Opening port", and after 10 minutes computer becomes hang.
What is the problem? kindly tell me the solution
EsHbAn BaHaDuR
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There are might be many problem or area that you need to check about this systme:
1. Try to test a new connection whether it could connect successfully or not.
2. Make sure the user name and password is correct.
3. An IP address of the connection point to the server is wrong.
4. Make sure that the device driver of modem or network card is enable or install correctly.
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Hi All,
I had developed a VC++ Application. I need only this application running when Windows Starts up. Default windows screens, desktops, status bar etc., and hot keys should be disabled.
Also on closing the application, Windows must Shutdown automatically.
Pl get me solution
Thanks in Advance,
R.Gopalakrishnan
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You can replace (or at least you could as recent as Windows NT) the windows shell interface. Instead of using explorer.exe you could replace it with any other exe.
George Carlin wrote:
"Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
If the physicists find a universal theory describing the laws of universe, I'm sure the a**hole constant will be an integral part of that theory.
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Hi :
only by replace the shell value in the follwing registry key your program will run instead of explorer.exe
replace you program full path in the explorer.exe place in the shell value .
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
to restart windows or shutdown when your program close
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when your program quered to closed
only invok ExitWindowsEx(....) API function .
bye .
Faroq Al-tam KingofC
On Earth nothing impossible,
while your mind running.
Faroqtam
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I am accessing DB using System.Data.IdbConnection class (C#)
On one opening and closing of the Database connection the resources are not being release properly- if run by double-clicking the executable on the explorer.
But if run thru MS Studio, the Handles are properly returned back when the connection is closed.
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Im using a shared Networked computer of which i don't have administrative rights. How can i block others users who logs in or deny them some resources so that they change to use other computers;).
oam
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mpapeo wrote: Im using a shared Networked computer of which i don't have administrative rights. How can i block others users who logs in or deny them some resources so that they change to use other computers
It is impossible to do that. If you are an administrator, you would be able to do it by disable the user account. But if you have a power user right, you would be able to disable only the account that you create.
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hi:
this fpourm for sience not to playing .Understoooooooed
good luck.
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Your testing post is success 
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i need programming way that help me in monitoring
GDI free resources.
by the way, i do with vb6
and thank for all.
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Hello,
We, SYSWARE Healthcare Systems Inc., are registered users of Clarion in developing our LIS products. We have used the functionality of PEEK() and POKE() in one of our server products which connects to different remote module using winsock functionality. In developing our server we have used the above specified functions.
While going through the clarion help we have come across that if the above mentioned functions are not used correctly then it may lead to GPF - error in a clarion application and that is what exactly happenning in our case. Also in the clarion help it is mentioned that use of Windows API function which provides the same functionality should be preferred over the use of POKE() and PEEK().
After searching the net and related books i could not find the function that can be used in Clarion. Can you please guide us in this matter. We need to know the API function name that can be used in place of PEEK() and POKE() along with the explaination as to how it can be incorporated in the clarion application
Your early response in this matter will be highly appreciated.
With Warm Regards,
Deepankar Neogi
Software Engineer
SYSWARE Healthcare Systems Inc.
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Hi!
I've got currently win2k-pro on my system installed. The installation is located on my C:/ partition. Another partition (on the same physical disk) is hosting all data. When I now try to reinstall win2k, setup does not allow me to delete the current system partion, which I'd really like to do since it is all messed up.
I've tried running the setup by simply booting from the CD-Rom and by launching it from the currently installed win-2k. Both ways do not seem to yield the expected results.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Matthias
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