ReactOS 0.3.0 - CD does not work...

[michaelbischof]

Hi Everybody,

I tried to use the ReactOS-0.3.0-LiveCD on my PCs. It did not work - but the
same CD worked on our school PC!

The error messages are:

Invalid partition table magic 0x2507 found on drive 0x9f

Unable to locate boot partition

Error opening bot partition for file access


Any ideas what I should do?

Regards,

Michael Bischof

[Ferret-Simpson]

You could steal one of the School computers. . .?

[michaelbischof]

Hi,

no, I tried the Reactos-Live-CD on a school computer and it worked. To this place I wrote because I hoped it could be possible to "steal" some know how
why this Live-CD does not work on 2 of my machines at home.

The necessery error messages I showed. Not knowing Reactos yet I can make no use of them.

Anybody here who knows more?

Regards,

Michael Bischof

[Andrewm1986]

Are your cd drives something silly like sata?

[Ferret-Simpson]

They don't make those!

[michaelbischof]

Hi,

thanks for the reply! No, the CD drives cannot be the reason. It is possible to boot from a lot of different CDs with them.

There must be another reason - then!

Regards,

Michael Bischof

[Ferret-Simpson]

Maybe your boards just don't like the ReactOS bootloader.

I had a few problems once with an NCR S20 server that had to be booted by floppy to start the Slackware installer, and then wouldn't boot lilo either.

I've got a POS (Till, not insult) that won't boot Windows > 95. Sod all you can do, really.

[michaelbischof]

Hi,

thanks for your help - in this case there is apparently nothing I can do further. I will follow here how ReactOS develops. Good luck to you!

Regards,

Michael Bischof

[counting_pine]

If you don't specifically want to run it on real hardware, you could run it emulated - there's a QEMU-preloaded version on the Downloads page. It's not as fast as real hardware, but it still gives you a good feel of what it's like.

[Andrewm1986]

They don't make those!

Just to make a point, they do

http://www.directron.com/sataopti.html