Thanks. I'll bear that in mind BTW before any prpgrammers rip the idea to shreds - yep I know simply testing for NULL would work as well but strempty() serves a dual purpose and is handy for general string handling - hence I can include it pretty well throughout all my code. I can't remember the las...

Bug report: http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1943 NtOpenKey() calls ObpCaptureObjectAttributes() which can return null ObjectName. Then null pointer used in if (ObjectName.Buffer[(ObjectName.Length / sizeof(WCHAR)) - 1] == '\\') which leads to crash. Am I allowed to post comments int...

See this thread (amongst others) - I get a kernel loop in ntoskrnl.exe

http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 5258#25258

This is a known problem being worked on - tried todays SVN ISO and still same

If you're 13 its the perfect time to learn C then move onto assembler. I wish I had that advantage when I was a kid but it a rubbery-keyboard speccy was a top of the range home PC lol :D You can get loads of compilers for free - even ones including an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) and the...

Did you recheck freeldr.ini to ensure the changes had been carried over? The first time I tried it the software failed to update the changes properly and I was faffing about without realing the file hadn't been changed at all and I was still booting with the orginal settings :( I found it was best t...

Well, how can I see anything ? I have no debug output (does it still work, logging with a second PC over serial port ?). You'll need to load the ISO into an ISO editor such as WinISO, extract freeldr.ini, add the edited options= line as per above then re-insert the freeldr.ini file back into the IS...

Okay - remastered the ISO using WinISO and re-ran in QEMU after editing freeldr.ini First it halts briefly with (amongst others) CSR: CSRServerInitialisationFailed Image link http://reactos.amadis.sytes.net/images/20070103-cdrserver-failed.jpg Then loops permanently in ntoskrnl.exe with output shown...

I get the same results with the SVN Trunk live CD releases. The primary release (setup/install) versions boot okay. Looking back I see that the liveCD boot loader method was changed around mid-summer last year. My guess is that something has gone amiss with the boot loader. One of the other develope...

Ahhh... all is explained! lol ;) No, it was definitely Control Panel. I clicked one of the toolbar icons - cant remember which - maybe "NT Obj" and the screen just suddenly went blue with the "shutdown" message. Guess these things can happen so early on - esp as I had managed to ...

Thanks GreatLord - that answers my question!

Also interesting it checking the apps included to see if any odd quirks or crashes in ROS are exactly the same in XP or 2K. I've just spent a few minutes with the 0.3.0 live CD in XP Home running up a few of the apps and found some app bugs that I thought were down to ROS look more likely to be due ...

Have had several attmepts to boot a Toshiba Tecra. 510 - approx 140mb memory, 2GB hard drive. Win2k installed and working - multi boot with Win98. FAT32. Smart Boot Manager to enable CDROM boot as BIOS does not support it. SBM is quite good for booting older PCs from CDROM and is free. e.g. SVN 2533...

Correct me if I am wrong but ... I think that only NE2000 (or equivalent - e.g. RealTek) clone cards are supported at the moment. Should be easy to get hold of an NE2000 clone. With the right card in networking should work okay although my own experience was that it tends to spontaneously combust on...

These debug ISOs can use /DEBUGPORT=SCREEN kernel option by default or have a choice in boot loader menu. Nice logo is unnecessary for them. Thanks for the info. Sounds good!. I've downloaded about 10 of the recent SVNs including DBG and REL ISOs and all of them hang totally on booting at the "...

Just reinstalled ROS 0.3.0 in QEMU - launched control panel to sniff out where it was I last managed to set up the LAN adapter from (forgot already!) - clicked a button at the top menu and got a very strange BSOD. "Oh, come on. I got a headache. Leave me along will ya?" "You can switc...