no grub installation

[comparotf]

Hi

I did install Reactos 3.10 in /dev/sda1.

After the installation the Reactos did not reinstall Grub in MBR. The old Grub installation maked by Puppy Linux is yet active.

I did reinstall Grub with Puppy Linux because it is easy to handle. The Puppy Grub installer did find and recognize Reactos as a Windows system and install as following:

# Other bootable partition config begins
title Windows (on /dev/sda1)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
# Other bootable partition config ends

but Reactos don't start.

a/ what is wrong in above file
b/ is start with the installation's CD possible (my PC has no FD drive!)

[comparotf]

the error message from grub is

"free ldrsys not found"

[Lone_Rifle]

http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2733

[hto]

http://www.reactos.org/wiki/HOWTO/boot_ ... _from_GRUB

[comparotf]

hi hto

i suppose that the installation is not complete. no freeldr.sys no freeldr.ini in / and no directory "loader" .

in /reactos only 5 directories (bin, fonts, inf, media, system32) and only 8 files (explorer.exe, explorer_new.exe, hh.exe, regedit.exe, winhlp32.exe, system.ini, explorer-cgf-template.xml and the picture angelus). I did find more files on the CD especially reactos.exe.

the content of freeldr.ini is actually:

[FREELOADER]

DefaultOS=Setup

Timeout=0



[Display]

TitleText=ReactOS Setup

StatusBarColor=Cyan

StatusBarTextColor=Black

BackdropTextColor=White

BackdropColor=Blue

BackdropFillStyle=Medium

TitleBoxTextColor=White

TitleBoxColor=Red

MessageBoxTextColor=White

MessageBoxColor=Blue

MenuTextColor=White

MenuColor=Blue

TextColor=Yellow

SelectedTextColor=Black

SelectedColor=Gray



[Operating Systems]

Setup=""



[Setup]

BootType=

i dont know what is to enter in the section Operating Systems and Setup

[EmuandCo]

We just need freeldr.sys on the root of the FS and ros only works from primary partitions well. The rest can be followed like told in the wiki page.

[hto]

no freeldr.sys no freeldr.ini in / […]

Are you sure? They have the hidden attribute.

[…] and no directory "loader" .

in /reactos only 5 directories (bin, fonts, inf, media, system32) and only 8 files (explorer.exe, explorer_new.exe, hh.exe, regedit.exe, winhlp32.exe, system.ini, explorer-cgf-template.xml and the picture angelus). I did find more files on the CD especially reactos.exe.

All right, they should not be installed.

the content of freeldr.ini is actually:

[…]

freeldr.ini, which is from the CD is not appropriate for HD.

[comparotf]

hi

I did burn an other CD (I did burn the first one as soon I did see the parution of 3.10 at Distrowatch a long time ago) and reactOS starts now. I can see a big progress in the new version really

But I can't use it now because of an new technical problem.

reactOS did not find all drivers for my Dell SX 270 with Celeron and Intel Chips set, an old problem I did have with older reactOS versions (because the drivers setup for Dell did recognize reactOS has not-M$ and with this error message break the installation).

this time reactOS break the second start with a blue screen where I can see:

"STOP: 0x0000007E and a lot of following numbers

NTOSKRNL.EXE address 808D2DFD"

[hto]

Can you get a debug log?

[comparotf]

Hi hto

It starts first with an light blue screen and a lot of lines of informations and stop after something did be made with the MSPS.SYS, AFD.SYS and SERIAL.SYS

with the last message:

"unabel to get file system of D:/"

(at the first start I did find that E:/ is the CDROM-drive and did work, but D:/ did also not open by clicking on it)

I have a second FAT32 partition on the HD with freeDOS and the old files of the previous Microsoft Windows time, that I will preserve, it is right. perhaps it think it is D:/ ?

[hto]

Does the first partition have right partition type (should be 0x0B (11) for FAT32) ?