RE: [ros-general] ReactOS fails to install

[Hartmut Birr]

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(a)reactos.com 
>  [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Devin Smith
>  Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 9:51 PM
>  To: ros-general(a)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. 
>  
>  1) 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
>  
>  4) I edited txtsetup.sif and added the following line in [SourceFiles]
>  
>  hpt3xx.sys     = 3
>  
>  5) I added the file hpt3xx.sys to bootcd\disk\reactos\
>  6) 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,
>  
>  Devin Smith
>  devinsmith AT gmail.com
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