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As someone completely naive about Windows (and particularly low-level development), I'm casually/idly curious if the DDK includes the debugging tools you used,
by i336_ 10y ago
As someone completely naive about Windows (and particularly low-level development), I'm casually/idly curious if the DDK includes the debugging tools you used, or if I have to throw money at people to get at them. (I know the DDK exists, but not much more than that.)
Also, how did you remove the real-mode stub? Hex editing, or is there a tool that will do that if fed the right combination of [obscure] options?
IMHO, the best way to finish this off would be an in-depth tutorial-style blog post. You definitely get my recommendation to consider that :)
- yuhong 10y agoYes, the DDK used to include the needed debug version of NTLDR too. And yes, it is done by hex editing looking for the "MZ" signature and trimming everything before that. With BOOTMGR you just set some BCD options to enable the boot debugger.
- i336_ 10y agoOh of course, the XP DDK. And MZ-hunting makes perfect sense. Thanks for the quick reply :) and kudos for figuring out it was the bootloader, hah