Sorry, that I need always so much time, to answer.
You may have more luck using FreeLoader to boot ReactOS. Download http://reactos.csh-consult.dk/download.php?sid=FreeLoader-20040229-bochs.i38 6.tar.gz
Write it to a floppy disk using RawWrite or similar tool. RawWrite is at http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite.htm
Boot ReactOS using the floppy disk. Note that this floppy disk will only boot ReactOS from the first partition on the first harddisk.
I have yesterday downloaded and tested it. And it runs now. :-) Thank you very much for this hint.
ReactOS looks very nice. One of the best thing is the booting. At first the Freeloader which let you choose between ReactOS and ReactOS with Debug-outputs. Then opens the blue WinNT-screen and wrote something down there. But it's so fast, that I can't read it. So fast on my old computer. :-) Then the nice booting ReactOS-Logo. And I think, in this time, it loads also faster then WinNT. Then there xomes for a half second the blue screen back and then there comes the ReactOS-desktop. And all comes very fast. :-)
And under ReactOS the programs (like sol.exe) are running partially fast too. To take a new card of the pack of cards in the left corner of the top, is fast like on WinNT, I think. But moving a card or moving windows is very slow. The menus of the program exist, but they are not usable, what me wonder. :-o
And the console-window needs a lot of time, too, to write there the letters, if I type "dir" or anything else in there.
But for a 0.2.0-version its excellent.
But I am wondering, why the freeloader-floppy-image is not an offical part of ReactOS and why it is not published at Sourceforge. :-/ I think the binary-version of ReactOS plus the FreeLoader floppy-image is a nice combination.
But on Sourceforge are actually - of the 0.2.1.RC2-version - only versions for bochs and iso-images vor CDROMs. And my computer is for bochs too slow (and have too less memory) and for the iso-image I have no CD-burner.
So I could only test the last final-version: ReactOS 0.2.0.
And now a little thought of myself. I think, it would be nice if somethink like the DOS "sys.exe" exists for ReactOS.
sys.exe copies the basical system-files to a dos-filesystem (that can be a floppy, a harddisk-partition or anything else) and writes in the MDR which systemfile have been to load.
Something else, existing with the FreeLOader-floppy-image. There is the mdr, which says, that freeldr.sys have to load. But the floppy-image is only for a floppy and all files on it will be deleted. So I think something like sys.exe would be nice. So that sys.exe write to the mdr of a floppy, harddisk, - if possible to the CDROM, DVD or anything else. :-)
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