Crash on boot with older PC

[Jay_Walker]

Hello everyone,

earlier i was trying to install reactos 0.3.1 on one of my older comps, using the installer cd. See pc specs below:

AMD K6-2 550mhz
64mb ram
voodoo3 video
10gb hard drive

whenever i boot from the cd, it immediately crashes to a BSOD saying there was an error in the freeloader, and something about an invalid opcode. Does anyone have any ideas what the problem is and how i can fix it? Thanks.

[Z98]

Hmm, AMD. There's a piece of unimplemented code in trap.s that's screwing with AMD processors. It's not even fixed in trunk yet, but it's a definite blocker for 0.3.2. At the moment, there's no way around it, except to run ReactOS in an emulator such as VMWare and QEMU. We have prebuilt images for those. Note that ReactOS will not work in VPC at the moment. Or at least I haven't had the time to figure out a way to get it to work.

[GreatLord]

it is cause we are using sse fpu command instead for fpu instruct

[Tiansen]

it is cause we are using sse fpu command instead for fpu instruct

It seems like this is pretty easy to fix

[PeterK]

AMD K6-2 550mhz ...
whenever i boot from the cd, it immediately crashes to a BSOD saying there was an error in the freeloader, and something about an invalid opcode.

Hmm, AMD ...

it is cause we are using sse fpu command instead for fpu instruct

Hmm, not only AMD ...

"BSOD" / invalid opcode also occurs on my Pentium 200 MMX.

See http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2078
Comment #3

Best Regards,
Peter.

[GreatLord]

problare case is the SSE asm code in trap.s and ntoskrnl.

it is on alex todo list to fix

[PeterK]

problare case is the SSE asm code in trap.s and ntoskrnl.

I just wanted to remark it's not a AMD specific bug.

Best regards,
Peter.

[GreatLord]

I am aware it is two diffent regress

one for amdxp/amd64 cpu trap.s line 1559 unhanling path

one other problem cpu with no SSE it can show invaild opcode.

[hto]

People asked about freeloader, and you said about the kernel...

[GreatLord]

I am gusing it is happen when freeldr start execute of ntoskrnl
if u look at it u will find sse asm code in it.