Remote network booting

[Guest]

Hi I was wondering if anyone knew how to get the last piece of this working,
here is what I have. I have a PC with 2 hard drives, one has XP and the tools
the other is where I test. I can get through the FBA process to an working
image. I can make the SDI files and even get the to boot over the network no
problem. The problem is when I unhook the hard drives and go network only. It
downloads the image, boots it I see the desktop for a split second then get a
screen that just has a Windows XP logo on it and that is it. I was wondering
what is going on. If I attach the hard drives back up all is OK. I just not
sure what to look for to get help if someone else had this problem so I am
just going to ask.
Thanks,
Jarrid Graham

 

[Daron Underwood \(eMVP\)]

Sounds like some process is still trying to access a harddrive for data
during the boot instead of being redirected to the RAM disk. Is anything
configured to access a file or executible on one of the partitions that
exist on the physical harddrives?

 

[Guest]

That could be, although I just build an image let FBA run go though the jazz
to make it network boot then it doesnt work w/o the hard drives, I get the
screen that uasually says applying settings or something with the windows
logo in the upper right part but to doesnt say anything. I see the desktop
flash by for a second before that.
Now I have a new problem, I have built like 50 tests on this machine no
problem, now everyone I make even ones that worked in the past go thought the
FBA alright then I get 0x80070002 I think the windows activation thing and I
have removed / reinstalled everything but the OS and I have not been able to
make one work in about 3 days. I guess a new XP install but that is annoying
enough so I really have not been able to try much lately.
Thanks,
Jarrid Graham

 

[thesazi]

Did you get this issue figured out? I'm currently stuck with the exact
same problem you describe and I cannot for the life of me figure out
how to correct it.