boot from CF (yep, me too)

[crimson13]

Hello,

I'm trying to boot my XPE from a SanDisk 512 MB flash. Maybe I forgot
something, but here are the steps I currently took (without good result, I
get a screen filled with the number 9 when trying to boot from it):
- make a XPE build on a HD and run through the FBA: works
- use format under XP to format my flash: works
- attach both HD and CF as slave and from another disk copy the complete
contents of the HD to the CF: works
- boot from the CF: fails :-|
I've been reading the newsgroup a bit and the 2 things that I noticed were:
make sure the CF is set to C if my image requires it to be (seems to be the
case because it tries to boot from it and doesn't give a disk boot failure
or so); make sure the CF is non removable (when booting from win2k with the
CF as slave, win2k doens't say 'removable device').
Did I forget something?

best regards
randy

 

[Slobodan Brcin]

If you don't see any error, then try to mark partition as active?
Does this helps?

Regards,
Slobodan

 

[Amit Shreewastav]

Randy,

It would be helpful if you could elaborate what exactly
errors appear on screen when CF fails to load XP.

Just in general, I have experienced following problmes
with XP.

1) CF is not bootable disk.....
sol-: Please use bootprep

2)NTLDR is missing
soln:- This is coz of your parition, please find out exact
location of CF in your IDE i.e. second hard disk or
whatever so make changes in boot.ini

3)have u marked your CF as non-removable media? i am sure
u should have done that in first instance......

Good luck!
Amit

 

[Amit Shreewastav]

Randy,

It would be helpful if you could elaborate what exactly
errors appear on screen when CF fails to load XP.

Just in general, I have experienced following problmes
with XP.

1) CF is not bootable disk.....
sol-: Please use bootprep

2)NTLDR is missing
soln:- This is coz of your parition, please find out exact
location of CF in your IDE i.e. second hard disk or
whatever so make changes in boot.ini

3)have u marked your CF as non-removable media? i am sure
u should have done that in first instance......

Good luck!
Amit

 

[Slobodan Brcin]

Amit,

Selecting partition as active make MBR bootable.
If you use format from XP then you don't need to use bootprep, since format
will already make partition record bootable.

And like you said ntldr. must be present.


Regards,
Slobodan

 

[Amit Shreewastav]

ya you are right only file system NTFS is chosen while
formatting it. But i am sure we do need bootprep if FS is
either FAT16 or FAT32.
Please correct me if i have misunderstood.

Amit

 

[crimson13]

I solved the problem by restarting from scratch. Only this time I chose
FAT16 instead of NTFS (the flash is only 512 MB) and ran fixboot and fixmbr.
It now boots, but I get a blue screen indicating:
PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED ... *** STOP: 0x0000006B (0xC000000D,
0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
even in safe mode.
Only problem I encountered was a single file (can't remember it's name) when
copying that windows complained about (something about it having multiple
streams while the target device didn't support it). Is this problem related
to me switching to FAT16 (while my original HD with XPE was NTFS)?

best regards,
randy

 

[crimson13]

I solved the problem by restarting from scratch. Only this time I chose
FAT16 instead of NTFS (the flash is only 512 MB) and ran fixboot and fixmbr.
It now boots, but I get a blue screen indicating:
PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED ... *** STOP: 0x0000006B (0xC000000D,
0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
even in safe mode.
Only problem I encountered was a single file (can't remember it's name) when
copying that windows complained about (something about it having multiple
streams while the target device didn't support it). Is this problem related
to me switching to FAT16 (while my original HD with XPE was NTFS)?

okay, got the answer from another post I just read ;-)

Is this a Stop 6b? If so make sure to add the correct file system component
for the file system you are using on your CF and HD. As a test I would add
all the FS components, rebuild, and re-deploy.

randy

 

[Slobodan Brcin]

FAT is also bootable when created from XP.

bootprep can be used in few very rare instances when you need to have both
DOS and XPe on same device.


Regards,
Slobodan

 

[Juergen Striegel]

okay, got the answer from another post I just read ;-)

And what is it? Don't leave this thread without solution...

 

[Philipp Stampfl]

Hi!

Add the NTFS Format and NTFS Filesystem component to your image, re-deploy
and restart your system.
This helped me, hope it helps you too!

Phil

 

[crimson13]

Hi!

Add the NTFS Format and NTFS Filesystem component to your image, re-deploy
and restart your system.
This helped me, hope it helps you too!

Newsbeitrag news:[email protected]...

(sorry, I thought it was clear from that 'quote')
indeed: I had only added a NTFS filesystem to my config, which was fine for
my HD, but not my CF (which was FAT16)
hence the 'PROCESS1_INITIALIZATION_FAILED stop 6b' error

randy