[ros-general] ReactOS fails to install

[fennec]

if "No active partition" message is right you need to activate your 
primary partition from Reactos' hardDrive. You can do that from fdisk 
using a DOS boot disk (www.bootdisk.com). I think ros can not boot an 
extended partition neither.

Devin Smith wrote:

>I an unable to boot my ReactOS cd. I receive the following error message:
>
>Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM :
>Press any key to boot from CD.
> 
>Detecting hardware...
> 
>Invalid partition table magic (0xaa55)
> 
>Error Code: 0x0
>Error: no error
>Press any key
>No active partition.
>Press any key
>
>
>Some info about my hardware. The drive is an IBM 13.5 GB IDE drive. It
>currently has Windows 2000, and Linux on it.
>
>I have a second drive on the computer, currently formatted as FAT32 on
>the first partition that I wanted to install ReactOS on.
>
>The computer has an HPT370 IDE RAID controller on it that my drive is
>attached to. I did add the NT4 HPT drivers to the CD though.
>
>LILO is on the MBR. 
>
>1) I downloaded the latest CVS (09-09-2004) and compiled it using "make".
>2) After that finished I typed "make registry" to create any necessary hives.
>3) I edited hivesys.inf and added the following lines:
>
>; Highpoint HPT370A driver
>HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Hpt3xx","ErrorControl",0x00010001,0x00000000
>HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Hpt3xx","Group",0x00000000,"SCSI
>Miniport"
>HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Hpt3xx","ImagePath",0x00020000,"system32\drivers\hpt3xx.sys"
>HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Hpt3xx","Start",0x00010001,0x00000000
>HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Hpt3xx","Type",0x00010001,0x00000001
>
>4) I edited txtsetup.sif and added the following line in [SourceFiles]
>
>hpt3xx.sys     = 3
>
>5) I added the file hpt3xx.sys to bootcd\disk\reactos\
>6) Finally I typed "make bootcd" to create the ISO file. Burned the CD
>and restarted my computer with this cd in the drive.
>
>If anyone can help me thanks..
>
>I've been having this exact same error message since ReactOS 0.2.2
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Devin Smith
>devinsmith AT gmail.com
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