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Ulfric

FreeLoader

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Hi. I've made a bootloader, which first of all was fork of OpenLoader, but I got rid of OpenLoader's code and made my own. Main features:

0. Refreshable filesystem/OS list. This is the reason I started to make my own bootloader.

1. May be stored in EEPROM. I tried to make it as simple as possible, maybe I'll compress it.

2. Checks _OSVERSION in files. So, it reads file and finds value of _OSVERSION, if it won't find, it'll return string "Unknown"

3. If booting OS or something else is failed, it won't crash and will refresh screen and, because of my lazyness to work with signals and making code more complex, will recreate filesystem/OS list. (if your OS or something else will call function error(), it won't be bootloader's bug)

4. Scrolling.

5. Runs at any hardware, which has screen, videocard and memory.

6. Can reboot and shutdown computer :D

Known bugs:

0. If you reinsert disk too fast, bootloader may crash.

1. Don't boot OpenOS by using lib/tools/boot.lua, it's a problem of OpenOS and I don't know why I made FreeLoader check that file.

Few screenshots.

Actual code.

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