Inaccessible boot device with XPe

[Guest]

Hi All,

I am trying to deploy an XP embedded image for the first time and am not
able to get it right. Below are the steps that I am following. Everything
seems to work - the dependency check, build, SDI2HD, etc -but when I reboot
I get the inaccessible boot device (0x7B) bug check. Can anyone see what I am
doing wrong? I am just trying to load this image onto a standard PC - one
that I know can boot WXPP.

I have a couple of additional questions:

1) Is there a way to generate an ISO image within Target Designer?
2) When using the SDI2HD tool does the target disk need to be formatted? I
seem to have read conflicting things regarding this.

Thanks in advance,
Dale

Below are the steps that I am following to generate the image:
1) Boot to DOS from a floppy and then run TA.

2) Run Target designer and select "Information Appliance" as my template.

3) Import the .pmq file generated by TA.

4) Run dependency checker and then build.

5) Using SDI Loader I create a virtual volume on my development machine that
is about 650 MB.

6) Format the volume as NTFS and mark it as active.

7) Copy all the XPe files to the volume and then remove the volume using SDI
Loader.

8) Create a bootable ISO image and copy the sdi image to CD.

9) Using the CD I boot into DOS and then run SDI2HD.

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi Dale,

I am trying to deploy an XP embedded image for the first time and am not
able to get it right. Below are the steps that I am following. Everything
seems to work - the dependency check, build, SDI2HD, etc -but when I reboot
I get the inaccessible boot device (0x7B) bug check. Can anyone see what I am
doing wrong? I am just trying to load this image onto a standard PC - one
that I know can boot WXPP.

At least you made disk bootable and valid boot.ini.

7B is standard error and it indicate that you are missing some boot critical drivers in your image.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...a=group=microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded.*
http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/community/community/tips/xp/misspci/default.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/community/community/tips/xp/stoperr7b/default.aspx
Read trough other tips as well.

1) Is there a way to generate an ISO image within Target Designer? NO!

2) When using the SDI2HD tool does the target disk need to be formatted? I
seem to have read conflicting things regarding this.

NO. But image must be prepared "correctly". (You were lucky since your image does boot).

Step 3:
You should have used info provided by TAP, in case that you can't use that as least to keep you going add: Minlogon macro component
and resolve dependencies, after that remove conflisting components from minlogon and remove this macro. This should add enough
things for your image to boot without TAP results or your custom chipset components.

Regards,
Slobodan

 

[KM]

1) Is there a way to generate an ISO image within Target Designer?

NO!

NO. But image must be prepared "correctly". (You were lucky since your image does boot).

May not be exactly true with NTFS based image according to this bug report:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&[email protected]

KM

 

[Dave August]

Dale,

Although your approch may eventually be made to work you'll find that you
will be building many images before you are happy with your final product.
You'll get pretty tired of burning CD's (or R/W's).

The approch many of us take is to build a dual boot system with a hard disk.
Then all you do is boot to the 'Normal' system (XPP or Win2K) use a network
mount (or from the 'normal' system it it's your dev enviornment) and copy
all the files from the Windows Embedded Images directory to the root of the
embedded partition and reboot. It makes life much eayser to do it this way.
There is no need for SDI2HD or anything, just complie in TD and copy the
files.

FWIW I made my dualboot target box boot Win2K on the second partiton so the
first partition is C: just to keep all things very simple in TD. I figure
that when I'm happy with what I have I can load it onto my final medium with
no changes.

Dave