Re: boot from usb flash disk

I am not familiar with embedded XP, but this matches a
problem I have run into using Sysprep
(http://support.microsoft.com/suppor...icles/Q257/8/13
..ASP). NT based OSes are picky about the disk controller
the OS boots from. You may have to track down an entry to
add to the [SysprepMassStorage] section of Sysprep.inf and
run Sysprep (if you can do this to Embedded XP). If not,
then perhaps installing and configuring the OS on the
flash disk instead of the hard drive?


>-----Original Message-----
>"Gerhard Zahner" <zahner@dlog.com> wrote in message
news:<03fb01c330d3$9b21eb70$a001280a@phx.gbl>...
>> Hello,
>>
>> your BIOS should support USB-Boot, make sure that you
have
>> something like USB-HD0 in your boot configuration of
the
>> BIOS
>> The Flash Disk should be bootable. I know this problem
>> with USB Memory Stick. There you need a tool to make it
>> bootable.
>>
>> HTH
>> Gerhard
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >how can i boot an xpe image from usb flash disk?
>> >thanks for any help!
>> >
>> >
>> >.
>> >
>
>
>Hi, friends
>I had bad experience to boot XPE off any USB devices (I
mean USB CDROM
>and External USB Hard Disk). I posted several threads
here about
>booting from USB, but there was no reaction from members
and from MS.
>The BIOS of my computer has possibility to Boot off USB .
I have no
>problem to boot from USB CDROM or from external HD
(includind
>M-Systems DiskOnKey) to DOS, but I have trouble with XPe.
>
>The machine boots from USB CDROM or Hard Disk , goes
through Windows
>embedded splash screen and falls with blue screen Stop
0x0000007B
>INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE.
>It seems that XPE doesn't know how to path the boot
proccess from
>NTLDR to XPE USB drivers. In case of IDE Hard Drive there
is "Hard
>Codded" the whole path from BIOS routine to XPE boot
drivers.
>
>If you or MS specialists have any ideas, please post here
the
>explanation of this problem.
>.
>