Problem creating bootable XPe CD

  • Thread starter Thread starter Guest
  • Start date Start date
G

Guest

I am trying to create a test distribution on CD but fail to get it done. I
have made an image on a single 600MB partition on HD and made an iso image of
that on CD. So far, so good. FBA initially runs correct on the HD image until
it restarts, and from that moment on I only get the "7B" error. As far as I
can see from the FBA log file, no severe things have hapened in the process
other than the security-registration. The last entries in the log are:

9:20:07 AM - [CallEntryPointThread] C:\WINDOWS\FBA\fbalib.dll,
FBAChangeDisplaySettings
9:20:07 AM - [FBASetProgressText] Resetting Setup Flag...
9:20:07 AM - [FBARemoveRestart] Updated BootExecute!
9:20:07 AM - [CallEntryPointThread] C:\WINDOWS\FBA\fbalib.dll, FBAResetSetup
9:20:07 AM - [FBASetProgressText] Replacing System Hives...
9:20:11 AM - [FBAFlushFilesToDisk] FlushFileBuffers(C:\) succeeded!
9:20:11 AM - [FBADoReboot] Sleeping...
9:20:21 AM - [FBADoReboot] Exiting process...

I have used the same config to test a distribution on disk, which worked
fine. I have adapted this configuration for CD-ROM according to the
instructions in the help-file but I can't finish the FBA fully. Anyone has a
clue on where I should look for?
 
Menno,

I'm not quite sure how FBA error relate to CD boot 7B?
You should have done and prepared (post FBA) image on HDD with CD present.
Have you pass this step?
Only then you copy image to second CD and try booting. (With few tweaks to
EWF and volume letters before of course).

Can you describe what have you done so far, and what is the problem. Did you
used hd2iso and stuff like that.

Regards,
Slobodan
 
I have made an image on a 600 MB partition on a second harddisk with all
preparations as described in the help-files. From this disk I have made an
ISO image by means of HD2ISO and copied it on a CD with a 9660 compatible
program (Nero express 6, option Burn image to disk). Although I can't read
the contents of the CD it appears that the image is there as explorer reports
it to be an El Torito disk and my computer can boot from it (although FBA
won't run from it obviously).

The next thing I did was to boot from the HD and let FBA do its thing; that
part also went right, up to the moment FBA reboots the computer for the first
time: from that moment on I get the 7B error. Note that it's still booting
from the HD, not from the CD-ROM (although CD is present in the drive) and as
far as I can see FBA is not completely finished yet. However, from the log I
can't see any reason why it doesn't complete.

Any hints would be highly appreciated.

Menno.
 
Menno,
Note that it's still booting from the HD, not from the CD-ROM
Click to expand...
This is what I wanted to hear.

Anyhow having BSOD 7B on second FBA boot is rare thing I have seen it one
time but I was testing my storage driver can't recall that I have seen it
with MS-drivers (ntdetect.com problem during the boot from CD excluded)
Send us here zip-ed setupapi.log and fba.log so that we might check it as
well.
Let us know if you have capability to use kernel debuger over serial cable
or IEEE 1394.

Also just for test try adding minlogon sample marco or winlogon sample
macrot components and resolve dependencies (choose component that is most
apropriate or/and uncheck from it some things that you really don't need).
These components will bring to your image all generic driver support that
you need for disk drivers.

Regards,
Slobodan
 
Slobodan,

Regretfully I don't have the possibility to use kernel debugger at this
moment due to lack of suffcient hardware.

I have added the winlogon sample macro component to my first working test
setup, added the El Torito CD support, EWF NT loader, etc. all according to
the instructions / samples in the help files. What I maybe should add for
clarity is that I initially had quite a struggle to make a working XPe on
harddisk in the first place because of the fact that my primary harddisk is
an S-ATA type and my target an IDE drive. In the BIOS, the primary drive is
automatically designated as tertiary master, the target as primary master and
the CD-ROM is secondary master. Although this may not be the most suitable
configuration there's little I can do about that as I have no other suitable
computer at hand. And because I managed to get a working distribution on HD I
believe that it should be possible to make one on CD as well.

At this moment I still have the feeling that the problem lies in there, but
I can't find any clues on where I've made incorrect settings. Basically I
have changed nothing to the harddisk or related settings in comparison to my
working image before I started to figure out how to make a bootable CD setup.
I have tried all different types of settings (drive names, disk enumerations)
I could think of today, but as of yet without any result; the pile of useless
CD's is slowly growing.

I would gladly post the zipped log-files but I have no clue where and how to
do that.

Best regards,

Menno
 
Menno,

You should use Outlook Express for easy access to this NG and additional
options like attachments.
Use public server news.microsoft.com for NG access.

For CD piling problem use RW CDs to prevent this.

If you think that you are struggling with CD problem I think that (very
likely) you are wrong and that problem is something more elemental.
You can test this by removing El-torito component from your project, and
then try letting FBA complete.

Most BIOS-es do not care about master/slave positions when booting.
You can use any HDD as long as you set it for boot in BIOS. It will be first
disk by default.

Unrelated to problem this thread might interest you:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group...e9cd63d679b/4bb9658425996274#4bb9658425996274

Regards,
Slobodan
 
OK, I think I'll give it another try from scratch with the descriptions in
the link you gave, see where I get. Thanks for the support so far, if I run
into new problems I'll be back. And if I manage to find out where the problem
lies, I'll let you know.

Menno
 
Back
Top