[ros-dev] ReactOS miniport failure.

[Filip Navara]

Devin Smith wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Recently I've been trying to figure out why I am unable to load
>ReactOS. I am being stopped each time when ReactOS attempts to load
>the miniport driver. I believe the problem is that DISPLAY1 is not
>being expanded/pointed to some real file. I assume somewhere in the boot
>process that \??\DISPLAY1 is supposed to link to somewhere.
>
Right, it's a symlink to the video device object that is created by the 
video (mini)port driver.

>I am using CVS
>(synced from 09/29/2004) and am wondering if any of you guys can take a
>look at the debug log and tell me what i'm missing.
>
>The debug log [around 80k] is here:
>
>http://home.pe.net/~dsmith/ros/093005
>  
>
Clearly no video miniport driver was loaded here...there's no mention 
neither "vgamp" nor "vbemp".

>I have also posted my hive files if they are relevant:
>
>http://home.pe.net/~dsmith/ros/hivecls.inf
>http://home.pe.net/~dsmith/ros/hivedef.inf
>http://home.pe.net/~dsmith/ros/hiveinst.inf
>http://home.pe.net/~dsmith/ros/hivesft.inf
>http://home.pe.net/~dsmith/ros/hivesys.inf
>  
>
These hives look ok. How do you build the registry (or install the 
reactos binaries)?

Regards,
Filip