FBA Problems

[Todd H]

Hello,

My host is XP Pro (C: Drive). I create a D: drive (on another partition) so
that I can boot XPe from it (I followed the steps in the Microsoft online
tutorial). I have been successful in actually booting XPe using this method.
When I boot off my D: drive and FBA runs sometimes 2 bad things happen. I am
not sure if it is a hardware problem or a change to my build configuraiton. I
can't seem to isolate my problem. If I make a change and I get one one of
these errors and then I go back I still get them. The 2 problems I have are:

1) FBA starts and then it says something like INITIALIZING COMPONENTS (I
think it is the first step) and my system reboots. FBA starts again and the
same things keeps happening. Why does it reboot?

2) FBA chugs along for a while and then I get an "Application Error: Could
not write to address 0x00000000 (or 0x0000000c)".

I have tried re-installing XP and Target Designer but sooner or later I get
one of these 2 problems and I can't make them go away.

Could someone please advise what common root causes are for these 2 problems?

Thanks,
Todd

 

[Sean Liming \(MVP\)]

1. Do you have EWF in the image?
2. If EWF is in teh image what overlay are ou using?
3. What version of XP Embedded are you running?

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Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit

 

[Todd H]

I installed XPe SP1 then did all the updates for XPe SP2. I am not using EWF.
Both my computers are having this reboot problem (right after the Running
First Boot Agent.... sign on message). I have 1GB RAM.

This worked before. When I first started working with Xpe (and knew less) I
got this working right away. I have uninstalled everything and re-installed
all tools. I am not sure what I am missing.

Working the weekend,

Todd

 

[Todd H]

Hi Sean,

I found my problem from one of your papers. It was a problem with Drive
Letters. I had a Compact Flash wih no drive letter as Disk 0. I had a hard
drive (Disk 1) with 2 partitions - XP Pro (C and XPe (D. In Target
Desginer, I made my Boot Drive C: and the other paths I set to D: (i.e.
Program Files) for my XPe target. Everything worked. Then, I went and put a
partition on my Compact Flash (E but it was on Disk 0. So, now when I
booted from XPe on my hard drive (Disk 1) I needed to change my paths to
point to E:\.... because everything got bumped by me assigning a partition
(drive letter) to my CF on Disk 0.

Thanks,
Todd