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Public Discussions => General Discussion => Topic started by: dbanet on August 25, 2014, 08:59:28 pm

Title: New QSINIT aka Tetris bootloader has been updated to support ACPI.PSD 3.22
Post by: dbanet on August 25, 2014, 08:59:28 pm
Hi OS/2World,

QSINIT is a small 32-bit something (you may call it an operating system, or a "small DOS"), that you can write applications for, and that may act as an OS/2 kernel bootloader.

The installation is fairly simple, and the advantages comparing to the original IBM OS2LDR are:
If you want to read even more, please proceed to the google-translated web page written by QSINIT's author about QSINIT itself (https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2F212.12.30.18%2Fqs%2F&edit-text=&act=url). There are a lot of screen shots.

If you want to download, install and start using QSINIT yourself: direct link (http://212.12.30.18/other/QS_LDR.ZIP) (or by FTP (http://ftp://212.12.30.18/public/QS/QS_LDR.ZIP)). And read the included readme first.

If you want to view the sources or proceed to writing applications for QSINIT: direct FTP link (http://ftp://212.12.30.18/public/QS/QS_SDK.ZIP). There is also a Github mirror of the sources only (https://github.com/OS2World/SYSTEM-LOADER-QSINIT) by Martin.



Licensing stuff.

No GPLed code has been taken place in this software. The author of this software, Dmitry Zavalskov, has reserved the copyright to himself.

The software is provided to you under the following license agreement:

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License Agreement
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Binary form of this package is freeware.

Source code available for non-commercial use only.

Modifications concerning the existence and/or modification of any
copyright/author/name statements are generally not allowed.

This software is provided on an "as is" basis. The author makes no
warranties, expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, those
of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose,  with respect
to this software. The author does not warrant, guarantee or make any
representations regarding the use or the results of the use of this
software, in terms of the accuracy, reliability, quality, validity,
stability, completeness, currentness, or otherwise. The entire risk of
using this software is assumed by the user.

In no event will the author be liable to any party (i) for any direct,
indirect, special, punitive, incidental or consequential damages
(including, but not limited to, damages for loss of business profits,
business interruption, loss of programs or information, and the like),
or any other damages arising in any way out of the availability, use,
reliance on, or inability to use this software, even if the author
have been advised of the possibility of such damages, and regardless
of the form of action, whether in contract, tort, or otherwise;
or (ii) for any claim attributable to errors, omissions, or other
inaccuracies in, or destructive properties of any information.

Author is not obliged to provide maintenance or support to you.

If you don't agree with these statements, please erase this sofware.

AND
This application is based on part on:
 * zlib 1.2.5 (c) 1995-2010 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
 * FatFs - FAT file system module (c) 2013, ChaN.
 * PMODE 3.07 (c) 1994, Tran (a.k.a. Thomas Pytel)



Donations are welcome, as the following, quite a serious for some part of OS/2 users drawback has not yet got addressed:
Be careful, and always have a backup.

The author participates the OS/2World Forums: profile link (http://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=172).

With best regards,
dbanet.
Title: Re: New QSINIT aka Tetris bootloader has been updated to support ACPI.PSD 3.22
Post by: Sigurd Fastenrath on August 26, 2014, 07:13:00 am
With my OS/4 DVD project I would like to integrate the QS Loader in the "Boot from DVD process".

I use UPDCD to build the DVD, can you tell me what files and config.sys entries do I have to place in the boot images?

Thanks!
Title: Re: New QSINIT aka Tetris bootloader has been updated to support ACPI.PSD 3.22
Post by: Dave Yeo on August 26, 2014, 07:49:08 am
Be nice if the QSINIT people added some versioning info to the zip files
Thanks for the work.
Title: Re: New QSINIT aka Tetris bootloader has been updated to support ACPI.PSD 3.22
Post by: dbanet on August 26, 2014, 02:40:45 pm
With my OS/4 DVD project I would like to integrate the QS Loader in the "Boot from DVD process".

I use UPDCD to build the DVD, can you tell me what files and config.sys entries do I have to place in the boot images?

Thanks!

I'm not sure what your boot process is. You need to replace the original OS2LDR with QSINIT's one and place QSINIT.LDI in the boot drive's root.

the QSINIT people

Dave, the only author is _dixie_ aka walking_x, all credits to him. ;)
Title: Re: New QSINIT aka Tetris bootloader has been updated to support ACPI.PSD 3.22
Post by: walking_x on August 26, 2014, 03:00:52 pm
Be nice if the QSINIT people added some versioning info to the zip files
Actually, there is no reason to collect old versions, but "numbered" files available in ftp://212.12.30.18/public/QS/Archive directory.
Or you can use bldlevel on OS2LDR / QSINIT.LDI files in achive.