boot from multiple platforms - how?

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Yuval Yohai

Hello,

I need to boot same post-FBA image from different hardware platforms.
Is it possible, and how?

Thanks,
Best regards,
Yuval
 
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Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)

Hi Yuval,

This depends on how much they differ.

MS does not support this behavior. Although it can be done with certain platforms.

1. All of them must be similar to use same kernel/HAL pair. (ACPI PC... Standard PC, ....)
2. Hardware controllers used for boot IDE, SCSI , USB implementation should be as similar as possible.
3. You will need to have all binaries from drivers required for your MS chipset especially different GART drivers present and their
inf files.
I say present but not prepopulated from Target Designer.
This thread will be of interest to you:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...=1&[email protected]
4. During the boot (assuming that XPe start loading). PnP will detect new hardware and use appropriate inf files to install required
drivers.

This sometimes require some tweaking but can be done for most hardware.

BTW:
Can you tell us about your boot medium. MB types. Differences and similarities. And what seems to be a problem if you encountered
one. (Description of error).

Best regards,
Slobodan
 

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