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Euclideancat
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ReactOS freezes at drivers loading stage.

Post by Euclideancat »

Greetings to all.
I own a Lenovo ThinkPad X61s and I am currently trying to install ReactOS 0.4.14 on it, however, the operating system fails to boot at different stages depending on the boot option I choose. Here are all of the errors produced by booting on each option:

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LiveCD: BSOD after the "loading boot driver" stage finishes with final error: *** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF77DCA1C,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)
LiveCD (Debug): the system freezes after the driver multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\reactos\System32\Drivers\SWENUM.SYS. I tried to solve this by deleting SWENUM.SYS but the system freezed at the previous driver (NDIS.SYS).
LiveCD (Screen): drops me into kernel debug. bt output:

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[Active TSS 0x0028 @ 0x807D9000]
Eip:
<ntosknrl.exe158c69 (sdk/lib/rtl/i386/debug_asm.S:57 (RtlpBreakWIthStatusInstruction))>
Frames:
<ntosknrl.exe:8c0eb (ntoskrnl/ke/bug.c:1069 (KeBugCheckWihTF))>
<ntosknrl.exe:86bb (ntoskrnl/ke/bug.c:1415 (KeBugCheckEx))>
<ntoskrnl.exe:22f45a (ntoskrnl/io/iomgr/iomgr.c:432 (IopMarkBootPartition))>
<ntoskrnl.exe:22f912 (ntoskrnl/io/iomgr/iomgr.c:578 (IoInitSystem))>
<notskrnl.exe:22aa9a (ntoskrnl/ex/init.c:1805 (Phase1InitializationDiscard)>
<ntoskrnl.exe:331ba (ntoskrnl/ex/init.c:2019 (Phase1Initialization))>
<ntoskrnl.exe:11eff4 (ntoskrnl/ps.thread.c:156 (PspSystemThreadStartup))>
<ntoskrnl.exe:138c65 (ntoskrnl/ke/i386/thrdini.c:78 (KiThreadStartup))>
<ntoskrnl.exe:11efbb (ntoskrnl/ps/state.c:607 (NtQueueApcThread))>
<5d8950ec>
Couldn't access memory at 0x83E58959!
Couldn't access parent TSS 0xffff
Running cont rapidly flashes a BSOD (the same as the one that appears when entering LiveCD option) and then drops me into kdb again.

LiveCD (Log file): Freezes at multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\reactos\System32\Drivers\SWENUM.SYS
Choosing those options with Safe Mode and Debugging mode gives the same results; I've also tried using the /NOAPI flag in the F10 menu on all the boot option but I obtained the same results.
Using Safe Mode with Command Prompt in all options resuls in an eternal black screen.
Please tell me if I need to provide any additional information.

I have flashed ReactOS on a 16GB USB Drive using Rufus. The drive is formatted using FAT32.
Computer information:
CPU: Inter Core Duo. 1.60Ghz
Installed memory: 4.096 MB
GPU Intel X3100 - integrated graphics chipset.
The_DarkFire
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Re: ReactOS freezes at drivers loading stage.

Post by The_DarkFire »

Afternoon, a little shocked you're putting your support request here instead of mattermost but I happen to be reading the forums so ill provide some help.
You're boot 0.4.14 which doesn't support USB boot.
You need to use 0.4.15 which is currently WIP to be released. it was branched off but we're putting finishing touches on it.

I have a ISO here that will work for now

https://drive.proton.me/urls/0HZRGYWEXG#xbvzB7jjSrdR

But yeah. that's what's going on
Euclideancat
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Re: ReactOS freezes at drivers loading stage.

Post by Euclideancat »

Thank you.
MadWolf
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Re: ReactOS freezes at drivers loading stage.

Post by MadWolf »

hi
To test ReactOS on real hardware, I recommend creating a USB-RAM boot drive if you can not use a CDRW
https://reactos.org/wiki/index.php?titl ... ldid=51214

You can get the latest nightly builds. form
https://reactos.org/getbuilds/

tip
only download ReactOS from the official download page
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