Re: Problems installing REACTOS

João Jerónimo

> I've done some hobbyist OS developing for some time in the past and one of
> the worst things I could do, specially when writing hardware-sensitive
? stuff, was write tons of code without testing it on real hardware.
> IMHO, it's ok to test with the emulator when writing the code (i.e. during
> the write-compile-test cycle), but from time to time you'd better check it
> on real hardware, too.

ReactOS is tested on many real systems, on a daily basis.
There are millions of different hardware specs and configurations, not all of which follow the standards,
and which of course have their own subtle bugs and misnomers. We obviously don't have access to the same
range of beta testers Microsoft has, or the same number of hackers linux has.
Combine this with the fact that ReactOS is still in Alpha and you have a combination which isn't going to work
on every single real machine out there. As ReactOS matures, it should start to run on more and more default
setups as we start to both stabalise our code and introduce new code to handle the problems of running an OS
on a huge amount of different bases.
But of course, as you've done some hobbyish OS development, you didn't need me to tell you that.

Currently the only way we can find out what is causing the problem on your system is by getting debug output
from you. If you aren't able to do this, then your only hope is that someone else hits the same problem you
have, from which we are able to get debug output and fix, or we inadvertently notice whatever is causing
your problem and things just start to work for you.

Ged.

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