After several months of (public) work, ReactOS can now use UEFI boot.
But that’s the major changes planned for this PR. As of the state of this PR UEFI boot will operate as long as you have a serial port you should be able to test it.
Some more boot fixes will come down the road but this covers 85% of devices we’ve ran into.
In fact, they’ve even made it possible for ReactOS to boot on the Steam Deck, which is surely a neat trick. I’m sure once this has been polished up a bit more – if that’s even necessary – it will make its way to the next ReactOS release.
This made my week! Definitely news that I was looking for! This and other mainstream machine OS News! But Alas, I must be a creature of the past as things are now Mobile OS and AI related now.
Sadly, this is not going to show up for most people anytime soon. ReactOS 0.4.14 was released back in December 2021 and it is still the current version. They branched 0.4.15 well over a year ago but who knows when that will see the light of day.
OS/2 ( ArcaOS ) managed to ship UEFI boot support before ReactOS did.