Recent revisions can't boot in vmware 4.5. I tested some other revisions: 23800 - same problem, 23520 - boots for me. Debug log:
(ntoskrnl\kd\kdio.c:193) --------------------------------------------------------------- (ntoskrnl\kd\kdio.c:194) ReactOS 0.4-SVN (Build 20060902-r23887) Used memory 131072Kb (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (lib\cmlib\hiveinit.c:154) ChunkSize: e000 (ntoskrnl\cm\import.c:73) Adding new hive (lib\cmlib\hiveinit.c:154) ChunkSize: 4000 (ntoskrnl\cm\import.c:73) Adding new hive (ntoskrnl\vdm\vdmmain.c:42) VME detected but not yet supported (0,8D3DAA90,36) (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ldr\loader.c:267) Could not open module file: \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\sndblst.sys (Status 0xc0000034) (ntoskrnl\ldr\loader.c:267) Could not open module file: \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\mpu401.sys (Status 0xc0000034) (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\process.c:692) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\io\iomgr\device.c:347) You are seeing this because the following ROS driver: \Driver\cdfs sucks. Please fix it's AddDevice Routine (./base/system/smss/initwkdll.c:70) NtOpenFile() failed (Status c000000e) (ntoskrnl\io\iomgr\device.c:347) You are seeing this because the following ROS driver: \Driver\cdfs sucks. Please fix it's AddDevice Routine (./base/system/smss/initwkdll.c:70) NtOpenFile() failed (Status c000000e) (lib\cmlib\hiveinit.c:154) ChunkSize: 20000 (lib\cmlib\hiveinit.c:154) ChunkSize: 2000 (lib\cmlib\hiveinit.c:154) ChunkSize: 2000 (lib\cmlib\hiveinit.c:154) ChunkSize: 3000 (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\process.c:692) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\process.c:692) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\process.c:692) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!! (ntoskrnl\ps\thread.c:503) FIX PS SDs!!
*** Fatal System Error: 0x0000001e (0xC0000005,0x8001AE2C,0x00000000,0x0000000E)
<ntoskrnl.exe:2518 (ntoskrnl/ke/bug.c:1069 (KeBugCheckEx))> <ntoskrnl.exe:6e5c7 (ntoskrnl/ke/i386/exp.c:790 (KiDispatchException))> <ntoskrnl.exe:76af6 (ntoskrnl/mm/i386/pfault.c:133 (KiPageFaultHandler))> <ntoskrnl.exe:71354 (ntoskrnl\ke\i386\trap.s:1412 (KiTrap14))> <ntoskrnl.exe:1ae2c (ntoskrnl/ex/resource.c:2253 (ExTryToAcquireResourceExclusiveLite))> <ntoskrnl.exe:a7cd (ntoskrnl/cc/view.c:254 (CcRosFlushDirtyPages))> <ntoskrnl.exe:4581d (ntoskrnl/mm/mpw.c:92 (MmMpwThreadMain))> <ntoskrnl.exe:63ed7 (ntoskrnl/ps/thread.c:134 (PspSystemThreadStartup))>