ReactOS hanging at boot
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ReactOS hanging at boot
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I just installed ReactOS OS my laptop hard drive. When I try booting it the bootup hangs. When run in debug mode, this happens after Loading Floppy appears on screen. For the record I installed ReactOS onto my laptop using Qemu, starting Qemu with the following command
qemu -boot d -enable-audio -m 64 -hda /dev/sda -cdrom /root/ReactOS.iso
SDA was a 6 gig hard disk in a USB caddy.
The laptop is a Toshiba Libretto 100CT with the following spec:
166mhz pentium MMX
32mb RAM
6 gig hitachi hard disk
PCMCIA floppy disk drive.
[edit]I jsut realised I instinctively posted this in general discussion. Apologys for that. Also if a mod/admin wanders by you may want to move the thread[/edit]
I just installed ReactOS OS my laptop hard drive. When I try booting it the bootup hangs. When run in debug mode, this happens after Loading Floppy appears on screen. For the record I installed ReactOS onto my laptop using Qemu, starting Qemu with the following command
qemu -boot d -enable-audio -m 64 -hda /dev/sda -cdrom /root/ReactOS.iso
SDA was a 6 gig hard disk in a USB caddy.
The laptop is a Toshiba Libretto 100CT with the following spec:
166mhz pentium MMX
32mb RAM
6 gig hitachi hard disk
PCMCIA floppy disk drive.
[edit]I jsut realised I instinctively posted this in general discussion. Apologys for that. Also if a mod/admin wanders by you may want to move the thread[/edit]
Hi you lapptop graphic card is
NeoMagic MagicGraph 128XD (NM2160)
and it only support VBE 1.2
I am sad to say that the ReactOS LiveCD will not work on you laptop. Thanks to it does not support VESA 2.0 in the firmware of the graphic card.
The BootCD (Install CD) should work and you must select VGA driver to manager booting to GUI after installations.
NeoMagic MagicGraph 128XD (NM2160)
and it only support VBE 1.2
I am sad to say that the ReactOS LiveCD will not work on you laptop. Thanks to it does not support VESA 2.0 in the firmware of the graphic card.
The BootCD (Install CD) should work and you must select VGA driver to manager booting to GUI after installations.
Right I have tryed booting ReactOS selecting VGA only mood. Still hangs, I get the following output in debug mood:
Staring ReactOS 0.2.9-RELEASE (BUILD 20051222-r20301)
Copyright (c) 1998-2005 ReactOS Team
ReactOS is free software, covered by the GNU general Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for ReactOS
Found 1 system processor(s). [32 MB Memory]
Loading scsiport.sys...
Loadinf atapi.sys...
Loading buslogic.sys...
Loading class2.sys
Loading disk.sys...
Loading vfatfs.sys...
Loading bootvid.sys
Loading ndis.sys...
Loading Floppy...
...and at that point it freezes.
Staring ReactOS 0.2.9-RELEASE (BUILD 20051222-r20301)
Copyright (c) 1998-2005 ReactOS Team
ReactOS is free software, covered by the GNU general Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for ReactOS
Found 1 system processor(s). [32 MB Memory]
Loading scsiport.sys...
Loadinf atapi.sys...
Loading buslogic.sys...
Loading class2.sys
Loading disk.sys...
Loading vfatfs.sys...
Loading bootvid.sys
Loading ndis.sys...
Loading Floppy...
...and at that point it freezes.
No librettos don't have cd-rom drives so I use Qemu to install the program on my libretto, I todl Qemu to use my laptop hard drive as a hard drive image while it was in a USB caddy. Hence /dev/sda in the command line.
Anyway I going to try and borrow an external CD drive and install ReactOS using that, may work then.
Anyway I going to try and borrow an external CD drive and install ReactOS using that, may work then.
Another idea: since it appears to be hanging initializing the floppy device driver, get rid of it. Just delete \ReactOS\system32\drivers\floppy.sys (you'll need to do that with the drive attached to another computer of course). It might complain about the missing driver, but it should continue anyway.
linux delete file
@jatos
>Right I can't delet teh file - everytime I delete konqueror, remove the hard disk and reattach to my usb port the file appears
1. check if mounted "read write" in linux
2. partition must be "unmounted" or root must do "sync" before you can unplug the USB hdd in linux! If you unplug without sync or unmount, shortly after your delete, these changes are done only in the filesystem cache, not yet on the hdd.
>Right I can't delet teh file - everytime I delete konqueror, remove the hard disk and reattach to my usb port the file appears
1. check if mounted "read write" in linux
2. partition must be "unmounted" or root must do "sync" before you can unplug the USB hdd in linux! If you unplug without sync or unmount, shortly after your delete, these changes are done only in the filesystem cache, not yet on the hdd.
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