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Jake
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ReactOS won't install

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I have tried on my old pc but it won't install. It appears to go thru a list of driver files at bootup but then the screen goes blank and nothing happens.
System specs: Celeron 700 CPU w/320 MB RAM, 30.5 ATA Seagate HDD.
Intel D815EEA board with onboard audio and video and lan.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks,
Jake
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Post by Z98 »

Did you happen to catch the last driver it tried to load?
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Post by Jake »

I'm quite sure it was AFD.SYS...
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Hmm. A driver for BSD sockets. I'm personally not aware of any issues involving the network stack, so you'll need to pull a debug output for us to see what's going on. Basically connect a serial port between two computers and run HyperTerminal on the other one to receive the output, and boot into debug mode on the first computer and see what it gives you at the crash.
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Post by Jake »

I'll try to get a cable somewhere... boot into debug mode? Got me there.
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Post by Jake »

I have a cable, connected through com 1, but I see nothing in hyperterminal.
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Which version are you using to test?
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Post by Guennie1568 »

@Jake

I think, you have a problem with your onboard graphics card. ROS don't like shared memory I think. If you have an old AGP graphics card, try with it to boot
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Post by Jake »

Some progress.. I put an 8 MB AGP video card in. It now boots up through the drivers (AFD.SYS is still the last one in the list) and then it shows a dialog saying please wait.. installing drivers. Once that's done I have a desktop with an image background, a MY Documents icon, a My Computer icon and in between those two an icon which I assume is for a network. This icon however has no text label. Nothing works.. keyboard, mouse nothing. Hyperterminal on the other box shows nothing whatsoever.
To answer Z98... it's version 0.3.4.

EDIT: I just noticed that although I have no mouse or keyboard it appears to be running as the clock is keeping time.
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Post by GreatLord »

Guennie1568
I have 18-20 diffent laptop with diffent graphic card that works with reactos all have share memory

The issue with reactos on laptop and normal comptuer
is follow

1. if it vbe 2.x or higher compatible it works fine other wise no

2. if it a intel graphic card. it will problare not work for intel fake
a framebufer pointer. it is a bank pointer we getting instead
(64KB video ram we getting when we request all video ram)
will not working fine then

3. if the graphic fake vbe 2.x or higher reactos maybe will not working
fine then.

I think this cover most issue with graphic card issue
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Post by Z98 »

Jake, the keyboard/mouse issue should be fixed in trunk. It was one of those last minute bugs that was only partially fixed before release. Try the latest trunk build instead.
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Post by Guennie1568 »

GreatLoard
I will try other thinngs. When I have my Nullmodem cable I will make a bootlog file. So I can see what my problem is :)
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Guennie1568
can u send me private msg u laptop spec and which manufactor it is and model, and year when it is manufactor ?
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reactos installation hangs at copying file mpr.dll on latest

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hangs on latest build bootcd 32441
at copying file mpr.dll

on "digital pc" p2 233MHz 128mb ram 3com 3c905b 4gb hd, onboard s3virge graphics.
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