HOWTO Create Target Image Without KBD Support

[Gernot.Buselmeier]

Hi all,

I am trying to create an XP-E image without keyboard support. XP
Embedded Help only details how to create a headless system without
graphics. When I remove KBD drivers, layout components, Keyboard Class
driver, and Class Installer - Keyboard, they're added again to the
configuration during Check Dependencies.

Am I missing something?

Thanks for help!

Gernot

 

[Sean Liming \(MVP\)]

Unlike NT Embedded, you don't need to have a NULL Keyboard driver in the
iamge. You can leave the keyboard components in the image, just don't
connect a keyboard. In XP/XPe, USB devices allowed some flexibility and
doesn't force a keyboard to be conencted like NT/NTe did.
--
Regards,

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

 

[Gernot.Buselmeier]

Sean,

thank you for your answer. It's obvious that USB allows flexibility in
having a KBD attached or not.

However, my experiences are identical to what Eli described in his
post on Jan-7 ("XPe boot problems with USB keyboard"). My hope was
that if I had a KBD-less configuration then the startup/boot time
would not extend that much.

Attaching the Kernel-Mode Debugger to the Embedded target shows me the
time is "wasted" at the very beginning of the boot process (I suppose
in NTLDR), since I don't see any DBG output at that time.


Regards,
Gernot

 

[KM]

Gernot,

In Windows DDK there is a debug version of NTLDR exists that you can use to spit out more debug output during the loader boot time.

 

[Gernot.Buselmeier]

Thanks, KM

I'll give that a try.

G.