![]() My hope is to see a (any) journaling or log-structured flash-aware file system that supports files over 4GB implemented and some stability improvements made and then I will begin deploying one per branch and collecting logs as needed when something goes wrong. Most of the hardware attached to our current fleet require drivers that haven't been updated since Windows XP and getting them to work reliably (plus the cost of licensing) on Windows 8.1 and beyond is a real problem. These are fanless machines designed to run Point-of-Sale software on sales counters attached to warehouses in a multi-state, more than 40-year-old distribution company. I've got one system from a batch I can permanently experiment on. The system freezes when tying to install hardware on first boot, but I'm determined to hack my way through it. Using vgal's image is the only way I've been able to get ReactOS to install on this hardware. Using "bootusb-ReactOS-0.4.7.2-vgal.iso" and I'm finally able to install ReactOS on this hardware. Broadwell i5 (i5-5300) based NUC (NUC5i5MYBE).Thank you NicolasLusignan for the posting, and vgal for the iso. Feel free to drop a comment if you have further question on my process or if you think I need to add more details. That part was processed without a hitch, and before I knew it, I was greeted by the ReactOS desktop, asking me to configure a few system devices, which I will tackle and provided more details in a separate post as it will be more specific to that netbook model.īut to resume the purpose of that post, it is possible with some elbow grease to achieve an installation on a computer using a USB stick at this point. At this point I'm not sure if this is a bug in the installer or the intended way it suppose to be, but that being said, by editing the file, and changing all entry in the file from rdisk(1) to rdisk (0) and I've been able to proceed with the next step of the setup yay Since I was now booting the computer from the internal drive, the rdisk value was invalid. SystemPath=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\ReactOSĪllow me to explain what is going on over here: Since I've used a USB stick, upon boot from it, it was declared as being disk 0 the internal one being declared a 1 during setup (I suppose by the bios but I'm not sure at this point). ![]() I decided to take a look at the loader file: Until I remember a bad experience I had in the past while attempting to rebuild a Windows setup I had to troubleshoot. Needless to say that after several hours of frustration, I was ecstatic to see and complete the first part of the setup, until I hit the wall again, upon the first reboot I've received a message saying opening hive file failed. ![]() Here is the link for it:, like I said it's in russian but google translate did a marvelous job for it. After a lot of search and head scratching, bios setting change, usb key and port on the machine, despair, several booze bottle later, I've been able to find this russian site, providing a modified version of the 0.4.7.2 iso with better USB support. Tried them in a VirtualBox and both worked fine. At first I struggle with the BSOD 0x0000007B both with the liveCD image and the install one. Like I said previously, since that netbook as no cdrom, and the HDD is not removable, I had to use a usb stick to install it on this machine. To say the least It's been quite a ride to get it to boot, still have some stuff to iron out (mostly drivers) but so far I'm more then impressed by the speed of the machine at this point. Using a Macbook Pro as my main computer, I decided to use it to try ReactOS. I'll try to describe some of those, and provide how I've been able to work around them.įirst of all this crappy old netbook used to run Lubuntu at a "whooping" crappy slow turtle crawling speed so I was more then happy to try something new on it. Used a usb stick to install (I know now of the bug which I've been able to overcome I'll explain how soon) and ran into a few problem. Stock 4gb internal Siliconmotion harddriveĪdded a 64 gb SD card for additionnal storage. Intel Celeron M 900mhz running at 600mhz (as default setting of the machine) I've been following the progress of ROS for quite some time now and never had the chance to give it a try until lately when I dug up my old Asus EEE PC 701 Here are the spec of the machine itself:
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