Reboot your system in plain DOS Change directory to C:\reactos Type "boot" or "aboot" at the command prompt (aboot.bat is the boot script with ACPI support). You should observe a few messages as drivers load.Wait until the prompt reappears (the screen should turn blue while ReactOS boots). Go on to next section.

If you encounter problems with either booting or running your application, please send a email to ros-general@reactos.com with a subject of "BUG REPORT: Problem run foo while booting on bar". Foo being your application and bar being the release of ReactOS you are running, (0.0.19-Release). Please Include in the body of your email, a detailed discription of the hardware you are running on, application you are having problems with and all debug output.