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QSINIT

Version:

30082026

Release date:

Sunday, 22 January, 2012

Home:

https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/QSINIT

License:

Freeware

Interface:

Italiano

Authors/Port authors:

Dmitry Zavalskov (dixie)

QSINIT is a replacement of OS2LDR created from scratch.

This software is distributed as compressed package. You have to download and manually install it; if prerequisites are required, you will have to manually install them too.

Manual installation

Program is distributed as ZIP package: download to temporary directory and unpack to destination folder. See below for download link(s).

Latest version works fine with current version of ACPI.PSD once /VW parameter is specified (e.g.: PSD=ACPI.PSD /VW). To install QSINIT:

rename original IBM OS2LDR to OS2LDR.OLD;
unzip OS2LDR and QSINIT.LDI to the root of boot drive;
create OS2LDR.INI in the root (see readme.txt for example) and reboot.

This will solve the "just 512 MB of RAM" problem on EFI.

Online documentation:

Загрузчик QSINIT (на русском)
How to create your own OS2LDR - Pavel Shtemenko (in English)
A Project to Replace OS2LDR - David C. Zimmerli (in English)
OS2LDR e OS2KRNL - La segreta stretta di mano - Claudio Umana (in italiano)

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

QSINIT v. 30082026 (30/8/2026, Dmitry Zavalskov (dixie))	Readme/What's new	------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \| rev. \| date/time \| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \| 682 \| 2026-08-30 21:32:48 \| added dmidecode and some minor
212.12.30.18/public/QS/QS_LDR.ZIP
SDK v. 30082026 (, Dmitry Zavalskov (dixie))
212.12.30.18/public/QS/QS_SDK.ZIP