I'm running an old PIII 300mhz cpu and when I boot from the cd the intiall installation screen loads the set up files and when it brings me to the second blue screen(the one with red lines) it freezes up and dosnt recover.
Any idea's?
Freezing at blue installation screen
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I have a PC of a relatively similar spec (PII-233, a Dell Dimension D233... a relic!), and I can report that both 0.3.0 SVN and 0.2.9 release make it to the "second" installation stage, where ROS asks if you want to install or repair.
Perhaps Disorder means the point where the ROS installer switches to 80-line mode? (um, that's from hazy memory. Been a while since I played with DOS text modes) Possibly a video card issue? Old clunky version of AGP?
Disorder, have you used this old PC much? Have you ran memtest on it recently or tried installing FreeDOS, Win98 or something? Lets try and rule out any hardware problems first.
Perhaps Disorder means the point where the ROS installer switches to 80-line mode? (um, that's from hazy memory. Been a while since I played with DOS text modes) Possibly a video card issue? Old clunky version of AGP?
Disorder, have you used this old PC much? Have you ran memtest on it recently or tried installing FreeDOS, Win98 or something? Lets try and rule out any hardware problems first.
I havnt done a whole lot of work on it, but I do know Win98 was on there a few years ago.
I've somewhat also installed Ubuntu on it aswell.
When I ran off the live cd it went to the second screen and hung at loading cdrom drivers .sys (or somthing of that nature). At that point it hangs and even my KVM wont work until the machine is restarted.
Gonna yty it with/without KVM , and then on a second machine.
I've somewhat also installed Ubuntu on it aswell.
When I ran off the live cd it went to the second screen and hung at loading cdrom drivers .sys (or somthing of that nature). At that point it hangs and even my KVM wont work until the machine is restarted.
Gonna yty it with/without KVM , and then on a second machine.
I think I have the same (or similar) problem. Install freezes up right after loading drivers (last is cdrom.sys). I've tried both install and livecd.
Specs (maybe too old): P166, 64mb ram, 2 8gb ide drives, onboard video s3 trio64v2/dx 4mb (i think)
NT4 Installed the other day without a hitch. I have a cdrw drive that i was gonna put in it eventually, maybe i'll try that and see if anything happens.... Do any other drivers load after cdrom.sys?
Specs (maybe too old): P166, 64mb ram, 2 8gb ide drives, onboard video s3 trio64v2/dx 4mb (i think)
NT4 Installed the other day without a hitch. I have a cdrw drive that i was gonna put in it eventually, maybe i'll try that and see if anything happens.... Do any other drivers load after cdrom.sys?
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also same
I have a Dell Inspiron 9300 and im freezing, the last thing that loads is blue.sys, then screen refreshes and the top says "React OS 0.2.9 Release" something and other than that, entire screen is blue. I read on another area that there's no SATA support which could likely cause this, oh i did also get a message "NO APM BIOS FOUND" a few secs after i booted the CD. It wouldn't seem video(card) related, but then again the SATA issue wouldn't apply to the older computers on here. I was really looking foward to testing this too, this project has potential and liked the tour and screenshots i saw from here and OSDIR's images on 0.2.7 i think it was. Well, I'm not givin up, but if there's a solution somewhere out there, I'd like to give a try.
Yeah folks!!! The same problem occurs at my PC, too...
but it's not old. It's a Pentium 4 HT 630 and has a ASUS P5P800 SE (Intel 865PE chipset) mainboard, 512 Mb of RAM (Kingston working with dual channel) and a GeForce 5200 128Mb AGP.
So, I don't think that this issue is related to old machines.
To me it looks like a incompatibility with graphic cards.
As I was reading, I noticed that most of people experiencing this problem are using AGP cards.
Well... I'll try something in the next week, but I don't know what yet...
but it's not old. It's a Pentium 4 HT 630 and has a ASUS P5P800 SE (Intel 865PE chipset) mainboard, 512 Mb of RAM (Kingston working with dual channel) and a GeForce 5200 128Mb AGP.
So, I don't think that this issue is related to old machines.
To me it looks like a incompatibility with graphic cards.
As I was reading, I noticed that most of people experiencing this problem are using AGP cards.
Well... I'll try something in the next week, but I don't know what yet...
there is no build iso right now, but if you have more questions, you can read this: http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1741klim wrote:i've build it myself. and it is working. i was just wondering
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