I had this same problem when developing my bootsector. When I reset the
bootdrive before I jumped to freeldr the problem went away. I think that
the first thing that freeldr needs to is to reset the boot drive before
it moves on.
ReactOS.Bugzilla(a)reactos.org wrote:
http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=390
------- Additional Comments From simona(a)informatik.tu-muenchen.de 2006-02-25 00:17 CET
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got the same problem with the boot cd 2.9 on a travelmate 290.
shoud be the same hardware and the same crappy "insyde software" bios (v2.0 on
my chip):
Press any key to boot from CD <enter>
Failed to read the PVD.
Press any key
Failed to read the super block.
Press any key <enter>
Failed to read boot sector.
Press any key <enter>
Failed to read boot sector.
Press any key <enter>
Unable to locate boot parition
Press any key <enter>
Error opening boot partition for file access. <enter>
Press any key to boot from CD
And so on...
Notice that one time the any-key message appears without waitig for any key.
And, after the first "round" it waits way shorter for any keypress to boot
from CD (the time between two dots printed has decreased).
I experienced this problem with the first LiveCD version i tried (2.0 i
think).