[ros-general] ReactOS fails to install

[Devin Smith]

Well I patched all of the files with the patches you sent me but it
didn't seem to help me. After wasting a few cds, I just decided to go
the floppy route, which is fine for now.

Perhaps when these patches make it into the main releases I'll try again.

Thanks,

Devin


On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 22:53:19 +0200, Hartmut Birr <hartmut.birr at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> if you try to install and boot ros from an other than the standard ide
> controller, you must change more things. The install cd must load the
> correct driver. This needs to modify freeldr. Some of the other changes have
> you already done. The load sequence of the drivers from freeldr and reactos
> must be the same. I've attached the diffs of some of my highly modified
> files. The diffs contains more changes. For booting from some of the scsi
> disk, I must modify the arc pathes from freeldr.ini. With this changes I'm
> able to install and boot ros from some scsi controllers/disks. An other
> problem are the name of the user directories. Ros adds the drive letter to
> the directories, if the install drive is an other than c. If the drive
> letter does change between the installation and the real boot, ros doesn't
> boot.
> 
> - Hartmut
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ros-general-bounces at reactos.com
> > [mailto:ros-general-bounces at reactos.com] On Behalf Of Devin Smith
> > Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 9:51 PM
> > To: ros-general at reactos.com
> > Subject: [ros-general] ReactOS fails to install
> >
> >
> > 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",0x0000
> > 0000,"SCSI
> > Miniport"
> > HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Hpt3xx","ImagePath",0x
> > 00020000,"system32\drivers\hpt3xx.sys"
> > HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Hpt3xx","Start",0x0001
> > 0001,0x00000000
> > HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Hpt3xx","Type",0x00010
> > 001,0x00000001
> >
> > 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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