ReactOS liveCD not working
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ReactOS liveCD not working
After discovering this like a week ago I downloaded this a couple days ago and last night I had someone pick me up some CD's and I burned the LiveCD to take a look at it.
When trying this with my Desktop computer(Currently dual-booting Ubuntu 7.04 FF & Windows XP Home)the screen says "Press any key to boot into the CD." but once I do the screen stays black. I then tried to boot into the CD on my laptop(HP Pavilion ze2000) and it did the same thing.
Did the CD somehow get burned wrong? I've never had a problem burning other OS CD's I burned it with Nero.
When trying this with my Desktop computer(Currently dual-booting Ubuntu 7.04 FF & Windows XP Home)the screen says "Press any key to boot into the CD." but once I do the screen stays black. I then tried to boot into the CD on my laptop(HP Pavilion ze2000) and it did the same thing.
Did the CD somehow get burned wrong? I've never had a problem burning other OS CD's I burned it with Nero.
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Tried livecd-31108-dbg.iso on real hardware.
Go up to Desktop screen (were a message that it was not able to verify NTFS (probably Windows installed)). But once there, the keyboard don't react (no led change). And the mouse does not react either. So I had to use reset button.
Was a long time (months?) since last time I tried ReactOS.
Go up to Desktop screen (were a message that it was not able to verify NTFS (probably Windows installed)). But once there, the keyboard don't react (no led change). And the mouse does not react either. So I had to use reset button.
Was a long time (months?) since last time I tried ReactOS.
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ROS cannot read NTFS partitions and ROS cannot use USB hardware. What's yours?paul wrote:Tried livecd-31108-dbg.iso on real hardware.
Go up to Desktop screen (were a message that it was not able to verify NTFS (probably Windows installed)). But once there, the keyboard don't react (no led change). And the mouse does not react either. So I had to use reset button.
Was a long time (months?) since last time I tried ReactOS.
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I think, ROS has a disk scanner (read MBR) who can find all partitions of a disk. But there is no driver to mount other partitions like FAT32
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I made a small experiment.
I have disconnected hard drive and made the DVD drive Master.
Same result as before: going up to the desktop screen but keyboard and mouse not responding at all (not even leds).
The message about unable to verify a NTFS volume had gone however.
I checked with 0.3.3-REL.iso and it goes fine.
This make me think I should try the (not debug) version of last daily build, in case problem is with dbg version only.
I have disconnected hard drive and made the DVD drive Master.
Same result as before: going up to the desktop screen but keyboard and mouse not responding at all (not even leds).
The message about unable to verify a NTFS volume had gone however.
I checked with 0.3.3-REL.iso and it goes fine.
This make me think I should try the (not debug) version of last daily build, in case problem is with dbg version only.
Re: ReactOS liveCD not working
I get the same problem, probably a hardware incompatabilityJellymaster2 wrote:After discovering this like a week ago I downloaded this a couple days ago and last night I had someone pick me up some CD's and I burned the LiveCD to take a look at it.
When trying this with my Desktop computer(Currently dual-booting Ubuntu 7.04 FF & Windows XP Home)the screen says "Press any key to boot into the CD." but once I do the screen stays black. I then tried to boot into the CD on my laptop(HP Pavilion ze2000) and it did the same thing.
Did the CD somehow get burned wrong? I've never had a problem burning other OS CD's I burned it with Nero.
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Hi
This is a problem with the actual display driver. It doesn't like shared memory.
Build in a extra graphics card and deactivate shared memory in your BIOS so you will have a picture on your screen. Some modern graphics cards use its own memory AND shared memory together, but ROS don't like shared memory so you will have this problem with any cards who use this.
Can anybody write this in the faq? It is boring to write the same every time.
This is a problem with the actual display driver. It doesn't like shared memory.
Build in a extra graphics card and deactivate shared memory in your BIOS so you will have a picture on your screen. Some modern graphics cards use its own memory AND shared memory together, but ROS don't like shared memory so you will have this problem with any cards who use this.
Can anybody write this in the faq? It is boring to write the same every time.
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