[Incroyable HULK]

braunchen210, on Jun 12 2005, 10:56 AM, said:

ok, I tried to change the i386 to a386 whereas I always took capital letters where they were in the original file too. After remembering to change the folders name and the bootsectors link too, it worked!
Before they were named 3ENU and 3ENT (didn't work...)
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What do you mean it worked? Did you sucessfully modified the setupldr.bin of Win2003 Server SP1 ???

[braunchen210]

Oui ^^
Leave the 386 and only replace the letter, respecting its form (capital, minor) then it works

formidable, pas?

I'm trying it with the full setup now (did it without the txtsetup modification for testing..). I'll tell you if it worked

This post has been edited by braunchen210: 12 June 2005 - 11:13 AM

[Incroyable HULK]

You must be jooking, Alanoll wasn't able to do anything!

Could you describe the EXACT step you did

Alanoll, on May 30 2005, 04:40 PM, said:

Just spent abotu 2 hours trying to get it to work with multiple combinations of changing the I386. The REALLY interesting thing though...deleteing NTLDR from teh disc does NOTHING. lol.

Now if only I have a disassembler...(these aren't 32bit executables so no PE program will work)
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[Alanoll]

@braunchen210
I'll test it in a second as well. Sure you didn't forget to replace your nonSP1 file with that of the SP1 file?

[Incroyable HULK]

I'm currently testing too...

... I am re-installing VMware 4.5... the stupid v5 demo has expired

This post has been edited by Incroyable HULK: 12 June 2005 - 11:33 AM

[braunchen210]

I changed the I386 to A386 respecting the form of the letter (capital or minor).
It's just a guess, but I bet Alanoll (don't beat me) forgott to change the name of the folder ^^.

I'm trying it at the moment at the whole DVD... Would be a blame if it didn't work again, wouldn't it

@Alanoll I hope so

This post has been edited by braunchen210: 12 June 2005 - 11:20 AM

[Alanoll]

didn't work for me....

[braunchen210]

plz wait a second... it takes some time here
Could really be that I mixed up the setupldrs... but... just a moment (would be quite sorry if.. )

[Incroyable HULK]

Alanoll, on Jun 12 2005, 11:24 AM, said:

didn't work for me....

Same here... NTLDR is corrupt. The system cannot boot

This post has been edited by Incroyable HULK: 12 June 2005 - 11:39 AM

[braunchen210]

Ok, obviesly I really mixed up the files
I'm sorry

[Incroyable HULK]

braunchen210, on Jun 12 2005, 11:19 AM, said:

I bet Alanoll (don't beat me)  forgott to change the name of the folder  ^^.

Come on Alanoll, let's beat him! I'll go get my stick!


Unfortunatly, were back to square one...

This post has been edited by Incroyable HULK: 12 June 2005 - 11:53 AM

[Alanoll]

Nah I think i found a dissembler, but i don't know if it's the proper one. It actually dissassembles the files (which is a start) but that's about it. Every character is written in integer form, and doesn't appear to relate to the HEX address of the compiled file (though it should).

I'll keep looking

[Jazkal]

I don't know if any of these will help, but figured I'd post them, just in case

Decompilers:

* Boomerang [GNU GPL]
* NASM [GNU LGPL]


EDIT: removed the Java decompilers.

This post has been edited by Jazkal: 12 June 2005 - 03:20 PM

[Nazgul]

Off that list only NASM is a usable decompiler.
HelpDeco is a chm helpfile decompiler and the rest are Java decompilers.

[Incroyable HULK]

How about this one:
b a s t a r d

I'm not quite sure what we are looking for...

[Alanoll]

Boomerang won't work as it only supports 32bit PE based files (amonst others that aren't relevant). These files are easily found, they're the ones you can open in a resource editor and have been the main programming standard since Windows 95.

NASM is good. I'll look into it. The problem comes down to what type of file it is. I'm not sure if it's a 16bit or 8bit file, which makes a LARGE difference in disassembly. The file is most commonly called a sort of "flat file" i believe.

bastard looks promising, but I don't have a Unix based environment to run it in.


And as I was writing this, i had a case of Deja vu, though I don't know why. It feels like I've done this before...

[Incroyable HULK]

Alanoll, on Jun 12 2005, 06:44 PM, said:

bastard looks promising, but I don't have a Unix based environment to run it in.

You should install a Linux in a Virtual Machine...

[Power User]

so? what we have ?
setupldr.bin from windows server 2003-sp1(32bit) and windows xp(64bit-not itanium) - are some... i bellive all other "new" setupldr.bin is same as these...
it's for compatibility with classic i386 and amd64 in one file....

[Alanoll]

I called in some reinforcements (same guy who did the UXtheme.dll hacks) to help with this. Hopefully he can find something out as well...

[Jito463]

Hmm, this is interesting. I was planning on implementing x64 onto my preinstall today, but I see my work is cut out for me. I'll play around with it at work later and see what I can figure out.