[ros-general] Problems booting

[Vizzini]

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 09:09, James Pritchard wrote:
>  I've been trying to use the 0.2 release on some real hardware and am 
> having problems with getting it to boot.  I've tried the binary version 
> using a windows 98 base and booting into a dos prompt.  This method 
> results in the computer restarting almost immediately.  That was using 
> aboot.bat or boot.bat (modified to debug to screen).
> I then tried the iso which booted and started the installer.  I 
> installed it fine on to the first partition of the first harddisk which 
> is set as active.  When it reboots at the end of the install freeloader 
> fails to find it configuration file.and one time said that it had found 
> invalid partition magic.
> I'm keen to get this working so I can start debugging the code and 
> making the GDI more functional.
> The machine I'm trying to run this on is a Pentium 133 with 48 Mb of ram 
> a 4 gb HD on IDE1 master,  cd on IDE2 master.
> Any ideas or advice on how to get a log file out of the loader?
> I do have yesterdays CVS and have built it but haven't tried it yet.

You should try cvs with DBG := 1 and KDBG := 1in the reactos/config
file.  Re-build and see if any messages come up.  If not, start enabling
debug messages until you see where it's dying.

If you get a stack out of kdb, please post it.

Thanks.
 
 -Vizzini