Problems creating an El Torito CD

[dave]

I have been attempting to make a bootable XPe image. I have followed
the MS tutorials, and searched all the help sites I can, but I am
stuck. I get to the point where I have the fat16 partition (643MB)
with my image on it. I have the cd made and can boot into the embedded
partition to start the ewf. At first, the ewf couldn't find the blank
space on my disk, but I could always boot into XPe and the win2K
partition I use for the development. I had the fat16 at the beginning
of the drive, then a 300MB blank space, then the rest of the 250GB
drive is the ntfs for win2k. I tried moving the fat 16 and ntfs next
to each other and placing a large blank space at the end of th drive
for the ewf. That helps in that the ewf partition gets created, but
after a few reboots from xp embedded, the system crashes with an error
saying that ntoskrnl.exe is missing. I cannot get back into windows at
all after this, not into xpe or even 2k. I use knoppix, and I can see
everything is there. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi Dave,

I have followed the MS tutorials, and searched all the help sites I can

Have you searched by using google groups?
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...F-8&group=microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...a=group=microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded.*

BTW: You can configure RAM EWF trough registry only without creating temporary partition.

If you use W2K please make sure that you use ntldr, and ntdetect from XPe.

Regards,
Slobodan

 

[dave]

I did search the google groups, I would not have written this question
if I had found my answer there, thanks anyway. I did not see anything
that was exactly what I was experiencing. I did use the ntldr and
ntdetect, otherwise I would not have even got to that point. I did end
up getting past this by doing everything the same, except I installed
xp pro on the other partition. I have some other issues now. I do have
to say that the microsoft tutorials are missing a lot of information
that you need.

 

[Andy Allred [MS]]

the missing ntoskrnl error is a red herring. it's a non intuitive error that
usually means the ARC path in the boot.ini is wrong and is not pointing to
the correct location of the \Windows folder for the OS you're trying to boot
into.

Andy