[ros-general] ReactOS miniport failure.

[Devin Smith]

Hi,

I have asked about this problem on the IRC channel but I am now
posting it to the mailing list in hopes that someone (who may or may
not even go on IRC) may want to take a look at it..

Before we go into my problem specifically and I detail what I have
tried I should probably give some specifications on the system I test
on. My system is setup with the following hardware:

Pentium 3 733 MHz (Coppermine)
448 MB SDRAM (256+128+64)
3DLabs Wildcat VP
Intel 440BX chipset (yes, i know the card is only running in AGP 2x)
Highpoint HPT370 IDE RAID chipset
2 IBM HDD
First HDD contains 3 partitions (first is NTFS, second Linux, third Linux swap)
Second HDD contains 1 partition (FAT32) (ReactOS is installed on here)

My problem is that I'm getting an error regarding the loading of the
miniport driver. I patched both the ntoskrnl/ke/main.c and ldr/init.c
to show debug information. I think I patched a file in smss as well
but only to enable debug information.

Because I was unable to install from freeloader, I am booting from a
floppy. My installation method was as follows (I only detail this
because I feel this may be the cause of my problem):

1. Copy the 0.2.4 LiveCD structure (just the reactos directory) to E:\ReactOS
2. Add hpt3xx.sys to the SystemRoot\System32\drivers directory
3. Modify the hivesys.inf file to include driver support for the
hpt3xx.sys (without this step I got INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE bugcheck)
4. Comment out VMWARE and VBE information in hivesys.inf and
hiveinst.inf and then rename framebuf.dll, and vbemp.sys to make sure
they don't load.
5. Run reactos\tools\mkhive on the modified list of inf files to
create the hive files and copy them to the SystemRoot\System32\Config
directory..

It doesn't matter if step 4 is even performed or if I comment out VGA
and just leave VBE in.. I get the same debug log. I don't even think
that ReactOS is reading the files. Even if all drivers are there
VMWARE, VBE, and VGA.. same debug output.

I was wondering or hoping if someone could suggest more modules to add
debugging information to help find out where the problem is but I also
understand that it's possible that my hardware is just completely
uncompatible with ReactOS and may work in some future release.

Anyways I'll get to the debug log.. I put it at the following website:

http://home.pe.net/~dsmith/error6.txt

Thanks in advance,

Devin Smith