Problem Booting SDI Image from Hard Drive

[Guest]

Hi

Ok, trying to boot an SDI image from a hard disk as a ramdisk, the ramdisk load screen appears for a split second, but I get the following error

Windows could not start due to an error while booting from the ramdisk.
Windows failed to open the ramdisk image

I am not sure exactly how this problem is occuring, but here's the funny thing... the SDI image boots when I put it onto c: and give it a suitable reference in boot.ini like so

[operating systems
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetec
ramdisk(0)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Embedded" /fastdetect /rdpath=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\xpimage.sdi /rdimageoffset=409

where partition(2) is my c: drive, but when I add another entry below this, pointing to d drive where the sdi also exists

[operating systems
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetec
ramdisk(0)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Embedded" /fastdetect /rdpath=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\xpimage.sdi /rdimageoffset=409
ramdisk(0)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Embedded" /fastdetect /rdpath=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\xpimage.sdi /rdimageoffset=409

I get the error described above. C is an NTFS drive (funny that it should work), D is a FAT32 drive. The ONLY file on d is the SDI. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Dan Schmiere

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi Dan,

First at this point there are no C: or D: volumes, volume letters are
created when OS is partially loaded, and they can be different for each OS.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/community/tips/xp/rtpartin/default.aspx


If you are using same SDI file on all your partitions.
Then try to put ntdetect.com on your other partition.

Also I would make sure that you know what you are talking about since ARC
path partition(2) and partition(3) correspond by default to D: and E: (this
may be the problem you have.)


Regards,
Slobodan

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Hi,

Ok, trying to boot an SDI image from a hard disk as a ramdisk, the ramdisk

load screen appears for a split second, but I get the following error:

Windows could not start due to an error while booting from the ramdisk.
Windows failed to open the ramdisk image.

I am not sure exactly how this problem is occuring, but here's the funny

thing... the SDI image boots when I put it onto c: and give it a suitable
reference in boot.ini like so:

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
ramdisk(0)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Embedded" /fastdetect

/rdpath=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\xpimage.sdi /rdimageoffset=4096

where partition(2) is my c: drive, but when I add another entry below

this, pointing to d drive where the sdi also exists:

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
ramdisk(0)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Embedded" /fastdetect

/rdpath=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\xpimage.sdi /rdimageoffset=4096

ramdisk(0)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Embedded" /fastdetect

/rdpath=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\xpimage.sdi /rdimageoffset=4096

I get the error described above. C is an NTFS drive (funny that it should

work), D is a FAT32 drive. The ONLY file on d is the SDI. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.