Hi,
if you try to install and boot ros from an other than the standard ide controller, you must change more things. The install cd must load the correct driver. This needs to modify freeldr. Some of the other changes have you already done. The load sequence of the drivers from freeldr and reactos must be the same. I've attached the diffs of some of my highly modified files. The diffs contains more changes. For booting from some of the scsi disk, I must modify the arc pathes from freeldr.ini. With this changes I'm able to install and boot ros from some scsi controllers/disks. An other problem are the name of the user directories. Ros adds the drive letter to the directories, if the install drive is an other than c. If the drive letter does change between the installation and the real boot, ros doesn't boot.
- Hartmut
-----Original Message----- From: ros-general-bounces@reactos.com [mailto:ros-general-bounces@reactos.com] On Behalf Of Devin Smith Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 9:51 PM To: ros-general@reactos.com Subject: [ros-general] ReactOS fails to install
I an unable to boot my ReactOS cd. I receive the following error message:
Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM : Press any key to boot from CD.
Detecting hardware...
Invalid partition table magic (0xaa55)
Error Code: 0x0 Error: no error Press any key No active partition. Press any key
Some info about my hardware. The drive is an IBM 13.5 GB IDE drive. It currently has Windows 2000, and Linux on it.
I have a second drive on the computer, currently formatted as FAT32 on the first partition that I wanted to install ReactOS on.
The computer has an HPT370 IDE RAID controller on it that my drive is attached to. I did add the NT4 HPT drivers to the CD though.
LILO is on the MBR.
- I downloaded the latest CVS (09-09-2004) and compiled it
using "make". 2) After that finished I typed "make registry" to create any necessary hives. 3) I edited hivesys.inf and added the following lines:
; Highpoint HPT370A driver HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Hpt3xx","ErrorControl" ,0x00010001,0x00000000 HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Hpt3xx","Group",0x0000 0000,"SCSI Miniport" HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Hpt3xx","ImagePath",0x 00020000,"system32\drivers\hpt3xx.sys" HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Hpt3xx","Start",0x0001 0001,0x00000000 HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Hpt3xx","Type",0x00010 001,0x00000001
- I edited txtsetup.sif and added the following line in [SourceFiles]
hpt3xx.sys = 3
- I added the file hpt3xx.sys to bootcd\disk\reactos\
- Finally I typed "make bootcd" to create the ISO file. Burned the CD
and restarted my computer with this cd in the drive.
If anyone can help me thanks..
I've been having this exact same error message since ReactOS 0.2.2
Thanks in advance,
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