Is there going to be a new release candidate of ReactOS version 0.3.3? I tested it very shortly and was very impressed with how it looked in comparison to version 0.3.0. Is there a list of known bugs as feedback from 0.3.3rc1 testers? Searching through Bugzilla might be a bit too much :). Anyway, the issues I experience in VMware 6.00 on WinXP Pro x64 host so far are: * diskette drive not visible (and/or working). Ever since 0.2.8 or so? * shutdown does not close the virtual machine (might be improper shutdown). Screen goes all black and need to enter VMware menu to shutdown the ReactOS virtual machine.
Is the AUTORUN.INF by now the only file on the root of the CD? icons and readme files can go in subdirectories I guess, which makes adding ReactOS to multi-installation CDs a lot easier (a CD/DVD containing setup or LiveCD of various operating systems, mostly using the Isolinux bootloader for a frontend menu and chainloading bootsectors).
I've not extensively tested the RC1 on for example if it still can complete installation and bootup with 32MB or less RAM installed (VMware allows anywhere from 4MB to 8GB in increments of 4MB, Bochs/Qemu allow 1MB increases).
A resolved item I noticed in this new release was the ability to enter digits for the computername, wasnt possible previously in 0.3.0 or 0.3.1.
ReactOS is getting interesting by now..a Win32 operating system with a size of about 50MB and capable of playing huge games sooner or later. Looks like a blessing to my limited size (16GB) DRAM based solid state disk.
I would like to see win64 be implimented too and windows XP and Vista API's to work too... maybe a pipe dream, but I think we might have to implement Vista DRM to make some people happy... but My suggestion is that only the "root" or "Head Admin would have the ability to turn it off or on or control how it works.
On 8/29/07, Bernd Blaauw bblaauw@home.nl wrote:
Is there going to be a new release candidate of ReactOS version 0.3.3? I tested it very shortly and was very impressed with how it looked in comparison to version 0.3.0. Is there a list of known bugs as feedback from 0.3.3rc1 testers? Searching through Bugzilla might be a bit too much :). Anyway, the issues I experience in VMware 6.00 on WinXP Pro x64 host so far are:
- diskette drive not visible (and/or working). Ever since 0.2.8 or so?
- shutdown does not close the virtual machine (might be improper
shutdown). Screen goes all black and need to enter VMware menu to shutdown the ReactOS virtual machine.
Is the AUTORUN.INF by now the only file on the root of the CD? icons and readme files can go in subdirectories I guess, which makes adding ReactOS to multi-installation CDs a lot easier (a CD/DVD containing setup or LiveCD of various operating systems, mostly using the Isolinux bootloader for a frontend menu and chainloading bootsectors).
I've not extensively tested the RC1 on for example if it still can complete installation and bootup with 32MB or less RAM installed (VMware allows anywhere from 4MB to 8GB in increments of 4MB, Bochs/Qemu allow 1MB increases).
A resolved item I noticed in this new release was the ability to enter digits for the computername, wasnt possible previously in 0.3.0 or 0.3.1.
ReactOS is getting interesting by now..a Win32 operating system with a size of about 50MB and capable of playing huge games sooner or later. Looks like a blessing to my limited size (16GB) DRAM based solid state disk.
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Hi,
Bernd Blaauw wrote: Is there going to be a new release candidate of ReactOS version 0.3.3?
Yes, there will definitely be an RC2 and you can expect it within the next few days.
Anyway, the issues I experience in VMware 6.00 on WinXP Pro x64 host so far are:
- diskette drive not visible (and/or working). Ever since 0.2.8 or so?
Our current floppy driver last worked in 0.3.0. Due to the kernel rewrite after 0.3.0, it does not work anymore. In 0.3.3-RC2, we will disable it completely as it's useless at the moment and some people had problems with it. This does not mean that there will be no floppy support in the future, we just need to decide what to do with the floppy driver.
- shutdown does not close the virtual machine (might be improper
shutdown). Screen goes all black and need to enter VMware menu to shutdown the ReactOS virtual machine.
This problem is also caused by the kernel rewrite. The main reason is that we currently disabled ACPI support, so the machine cannot turn off automatically. But when you see the black screen, the shutdown process completed and you can safely turn off the computer (or the virtual machine).
Regards,
Colin
Hi there, I am having real problems getting 3.3 rc1 to run on real hardware. On four different computers, the live cd shows "press any key to boot from cd" then all I get is black screen and a eventually a flashing cursor. I installed on two machines from the install cd . Both installed fine, (nice installation routine), but on reboot they got as far as afd.sys before going to a black screen, and on subsequent boots to serial.sys before the black screen. I am not criticising here, I fully appreciate why devs would want to use a virtual machine for developing and testing, but a release should surely work on real hardware. cheers Les
Please don't forget that ReactOS is still in the alpha stage. Although we have releases, this does not mean that they are stable or support every hardware.
Real hardware is not just real hardware. Every computer is different in many kinds, so if ReactOS works on one computer, this does not mean that it has to work on another one. For example, ReactOS runs flawlessly (read: as stable as in a virtual machine) on one of my test computers, since I first tested it on real hardware. (for the specifications of this computer, look here: http://www.reactos.org/wiki/index.php/Colin_Finck/Test_Computers#PCR-I1)
Anyway, you should try 0.3.3-RC2 again, when it's out. The current 0.3.3 branch got an important patch, which should fix many boot problems on real hardware. I already tested the current branch with that patch and I could run ReactOS also on a completely different computer with it.
Regards,
Colin
-----Original Message----- From: ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org] On Behalf Of Les Cooper Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 12:29 AM To: ReactOS Development List Subject: Re: [ros-dev] 0.33rc2?
Hi there, I am having real problems getting 3.3 rc1 to run on real hardware. On four different computers, the live cd shows "press any key to boot from cd" then all I get is black screen and a eventually a flashing cursor. I installed on two machines from the install cd . Both installed fine, (nice installation routine), but on reboot they got as far as afd.sys before going to a black screen, and on subsequent boots to serial.sys before the black screen. I am not criticising here, I fully appreciate why devs would want to use a virtual machine for developing and testing, but a release should surely work on real hardware. cheers Les _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
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