ReactOS Forum

ThFabba wrote: ↑Sun Dec 02, 2018 3:31 pm It's helpful to give the exact file name of the iso file you used. Make sure it's a GCC, not an MSVC one. What kind of hardware or VM are you testing on? If your machine has a serial port, capturing text output from that would give more information about what might be going wrong -- https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Debugging# ... t_messages

middings wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 4:33 am Hey, tmvkrpxl0, please reveal the model of PC you are using. A link to the manufacturer's web site that describes your PC would be helpful. If your PC is a 'white box' or home built PC, please identify your PC's motherboard and link to the manufacturer's web page with its technical information.

When ReactOS offers nothing but an empty, black screen when booting, we must use psychic debugging methods. My psychic powers are weak but they tell me that ReactOS failed while enumerating installed devices. The most common cause of this is a USB device attached to the computer. This includes USB keyboards and mice. Laptop computers often use USB to connect their keyboards and mouse devices to the laptop PC's main board.

middings wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 4:33 am When ReactOS offers nothing but an empty, black screen when booting, we must use psychic debugging methods.

middings wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 4:33 am My psychic powers are weak but they tell me that ReactOS failed while enumerating installed devices.

tmvkrpxl0 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 02, 2018 2:00 pm I burned iso in my cd-rw
And booted, but it doesn't do anything after boot drivers loaded
Just blackscreen..
I installed boot iso, and lastest version.

tmvkrpxl0 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 9:08 am Motherboard:ASUS B250M-A motherboard

onestop_mid wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 5:48 pm

tmvkrpxl0 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 02, 2018 2:00 pm I burned iso in my cd-rw
And booted, but it doesn't do anything after boot drivers loaded
Just blackscreen..
I installed boot iso, and lastest version.

Did you copy the ISO or the files inside of it?

Illen wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 11:37 am

tmvkrpxl0 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 9:08 am Motherboard:ASUS B250M-A motherboard

Don't bother trying then, apparently, UniATA (the storage controller driver that ReactOS uses) has issues with AHCI controllers found in Skylake+ chipsets (tested on multiple Skylake+ machines, looks similar to CORE-14230). Intel has removed the IDE emulation option since Skylake, and you can't splitstream the Intel AHCI driver, as it doesn't work in ReactOS (see CORE-15073). LiveCD RAM is the only option to boot ReactOS there, although it's quite limited and you won't be really able do anything with it. If you really want to install ReactOS there, you have to either get an PCIe EHCI (USB 2.0) controller and use VGal's ReactOS build (which has new USB stack capable of USB boot), or PCIe SATA controller that is supported by UniATA (can't help much there, but I suppose that getting an older one is a safe bet). Still, I cannot guarantee that you will get ReactOS running on that machine, if you don't have any of these PCIe expansion cards, I would rather suggest to wait until the development team manages to solve at least one of the issues I mentioned before.