[Newbie] Deploying/Testing/Debugging XPE Image on Development System

[Asim Hussnain]

To get familiar with XPE Development, I decided to build a demo first.
I ran TAP.exe on my XP Professional to get My.pmq file.
I imported this My.pmq file in TargetDesigner.
Then I added components of "windows based terminal professional" in
configuration.
Checked and resolved dependencies
and Then build the runtime image.

On my system I've XP Pro Installed on F: Drive and my C: is DOS bootable.
I copied the runtime image on C:
I booted system in DOS and executed BootPrep command on C:.
Now I added a line [multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows="XP Image"]
in boot.ini to boot system with XP Image.
I tried booting with "XP Image" option but sytem doesn't boot and reports
missing system dlls.
When I boot system in DOS [C:\ = "Microsoft Windows"], it successfully boots
in MS-DOS (not XPE).

Is there any literature/help available on how to start with XPE Development
and Deployment from Scratch (XPE for Dummies

TIA

Asim Hussnain
IPA

 

[KM]

Asim,

It sounded like you've got wrong Target Device Settings in TD.
Make also sure that you set proper ARC path in the boot.ini (you did not mention your hard disks layout and it is hard to advise).

It would also help if you mentioned exact error message you saw.

For a basic tutorial please see this links:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/xpehelp/html/xetbsTutorialBuildingDeployingRun-TimeImage.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/usewinemb/xp/techrsrcxp/howtos/stepgde/default.aspx

Or this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnxpesp1/html/XPESP1_Build_Deploy_Img.asp

KM