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I recently tried to install ReactOS, and did so by:

  • Downloading the .iso from SourceForge.
  • Writing it to a USB drive using the "Make bootable USB stick" option on the Nemo file manager (for Linux). This created a 1.9GiB iso9660 partition with all the ReactOS files on it.
  • Booting from the USB (I could only boot in BIOS compatibility mode). I get a Windows 2000-like loading screen that says:

Loading ReactOS setup...

Loading NTSOKRNL.EXE...

Loading HAL.DLL...

Loading Setup...

Then, I get the black screen of death - no cursor and no disk activity. I tried several times (and waiting), but still got the same black screen of death.

I tried again, by making a blank FAT32 partition and copying ll the files from the ISO onto it. This time, it wan't even detected as being bootable.

What can I do to install ReactOS?

I have an HP 10-e010nr laptop (HP 10 TS Notebook PC).

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USB boot is not supported yet as explained here:

Warning: With current versions of ReactOS, USB support is NOT advanced enough to successfully boot, and ReactOS will crash when it begins loading system USB drivers. See e.g. CORE-7826. The following details for older versions are left here for historical reference and for use in the future when this feature becomes supported again.

See this site for the experimental builds.

You should use PXE-network boot or PXE-network installation instead.

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