ReactOS miniport failure.

[Devin Smith]

Hello,

Recently I've been trying to figure out why I am unable to load
ReactOS. I am being stopped each time when ReactOS attempts to load
the miniport driver. I believe the problem is that DISPLAY1 is not
being expanded/pointed to some real file. I assume somewhere in the boot
process that \??\DISPLAY1 is supposed to link to somewhere. I am using CVS
(synced from 09/29/2004) and am wondering if any of you guys can take a
look at the debug log and tell me what i'm missing.

The debug log [around 80k] is here:

http://home.pe.net/~dsmith/ros/093005

I have also posted my hive files if they are relevant:

http://home.pe.net/~dsmith/ros/hivecls.inf
http://home.pe.net/~dsmith/ros/hivedef.inf
http://home.pe.net/~dsmith/ros/hiveinst.inf
http://home.pe.net/~dsmith/ros/hivesft.inf
http://home.pe.net/~dsmith/ros/hivesys.inf

I am open to trying any patches or enabling debugging on any additional
files to help out. Currently, the following modules are enabled for
debugging support:

ntoskrnl\ke\main.c
ntoskrnl\io\create.c
ntoskrnl\ldr\init.c
subsys\csrss\init.c
subsys\win32k\ldr\loader.c
subsys\win32k\objects\dc.c

I have tried copying the file vbemp.sys to E:\DISPLAY1 but I got the same
debug log. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

Thanks in advance,

Devin Smith

[Filip Navara]

Devin Smith wrote:

>  Hello,
>
> Recently I've been trying to figure out why I am unable to load
> ReactOS. I am being stopped each time when ReactOS attempts to load
> the miniport driver. I believe the problem is that DISPLAY1 is not
> being expanded/pointed to some real file. I assume somewhere in the boot
> process that \??\DISPLAY1 is supposed to link to somewhere.
>  
Right, it's a symlink to the video device object that is created by the 
video (mini)port driver.

>  I am using CVS
> (synced from 09/29/2004) and am wondering if any of you guys can take a
> look at the debug log and tell me what i'm missing.
>
> The debug log [around 80k] is here:
>
> http://home.pe.net/~dsmith/ros/093005
>   
>  
Clearly no video miniport driver was loaded here...there's no mention 
neither "vgamp" nor "vbemp".

>  I have also posted my hive files if they are relevant:
>
> http://home.pe.net/~dsmith/ros/hivecls.inf
> http://home.pe.net/~dsmith/ros/hivedef.inf
> http://home.pe.net/~dsmith/ros/hiveinst.inf
> http://home.pe.net/~dsmith/ros/hivesft.inf
> http://home.pe.net/~dsmith/ros/hivesys.inf
>   
>  
These hives look ok. How do you build the registry (or install the 
reactos binaries)?

Regards,
Filip

[Devin Smith]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Filip Navara wrote:

>   Devin Smith wrote:
>
> >  I have also posted my hive files if they are
> > relevant:
> >
> > http://home.pe.net/~dsmith/ros/hivecls.inf
> > http://home.pe.net/~dsmith/ros/hivedef.inf
> > http://home.pe.net/~dsmith/ros/hiveinst.inf
> > http://home.pe.net/~dsmith/ros/hivesft.inf
> > http://home.pe.net/~dsmith/ros/hivesys.inf
> >
> >  
>  These hives look ok. How do you build the registry (or install the
>  reactos binaries)? 
I have the hive files in a temporary directory and install them using
mkhive. Like this:

mkhive c:\temp d:\reactos\system32\config

All of the binaries and other files were taken from my build of CVS and
copied over to the other hard drive. I looked at the structure of the LiveCD
and then extracted the files from my own build to the appropriate locations
to match the LiveCD layout. I am currently not able to install ROS from CD
(Last I tried was 0.2.4). Since some changes were made for 0.2.5-CVS in
freeldr, I will try installing from CD again when I am able to obtain new
CDRW discs.

>  
>  Regards,
>  Filip
>  
Thanks,

Devin Smith

[Filip Navara]

Devin Smith wrote:

>  I have the hive files in a temporary directory and
> install them using
> mkhive. Like this:
>
> mkhive c:\temp d:\reactos\system32\config
>  
Here we go. Use
    mkhive c:\temp d:\reactos\system32\config c:\temp\hiveinst.inf

Regards,
Filip