Startup problems

[John Mæland]

Hi

I'm new to XP Embedded and are having some startup problems. I have followed
a couple of tutorials so I know some of the basics and are able to deploy an
image.

At this point I have two major problems.

1. I cannot use NTFS file system. If I add the components for NTFS the
initial installation procedure fails. <Message: "fba.exe - application
error. The instruction at 0x01bffea4 referenced memory at 0x0000000c. The
memory could not be written"> However, if I use FAT, initial installation
works fine. Is there a special trick to NTFS?

2. I basically want to build a lightweight XP with known XP user interface
where i strip out unnecessary components. My problem is that I cannot get
any user interface. All I se is shutdown and log off on start menu. Rest of
the start menu is blank, desktop is blank, right click menues is gone. I've
tried to add whatever I think has anythink to do with the user interface
without making any difference. Is there any hidden setting for this which I
have yet to discover?

I'll appreciate all inputs you can give me

John

 

[Sean Liming \(eMVP\)]

John,

#1 How are you deploying the image?
#2 If you are using the Explorer Shell, you will have to modify the User
Interface Core component's settings to get other items on the Start bar.

Regards,

Sean Liming
XP Embedded Manager
A7 Engineering (www.a7eng.com)
Author: Windows XP Embedded Advanced and Windows NT Embedded Step-by-Step

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[James Beau Cseri]

See below...

Hi

I'm new to XP Embedded and are having some startup problems. I have followed
a couple of tutorials so I know some of the basics and are able to deploy an
image.

At this point I have two major problems.

1. I cannot use NTFS file system. If I add the components for NTFS the
initial installation procedure fails. <Message: "fba.exe - application
error. The instruction at 0x01bffea4 referenced memory at 0x0000000c. The
memory could not be written"> However, if I use FAT, initial installation
works fine. Is there a special trick to NTFS?

Is your partition FAT or NTFS? If both types of partitions exist, you'll
need both components in order to access them.

2. I basically want to build a lightweight XP with known XP user interface
where i strip out unnecessary components. My problem is that I cannot get
any user interface. All I se is shutdown and log off on start menu. Rest of
the start menu is blank, desktop is blank, right click menues is gone. I've
tried to add whatever I think has anythink to do with the user interface
without making any difference. Is there any hidden setting for this which I
have yet to discover?

Take a look at the settings for the User Interface Core component. Also, you
might find some of the components that you're looking for in the Software :
System : User Interface : Shells : Windows Shell.

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?John_M=E6land?=]

1. I copy all the files made by target designer in the windows embedded images folder into a ntfs partition on a second harddrive. This harddrive is set up with XP professional on partition 1 and my XP Embedded is put on my 4th partition. Boot.ini is then edited so I can choose to boot into the Embedded installation. When I use only FAT components and set up this partition with FAT filesystem everything works fine.

2. I've sorted out this point now, thank you very much

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

And at the end do you have NTFS component in your image. And what is your
partition order (FAT, NTFS, etc)?
I'm interested what was your initial problem.

Also since you are using XPe on higher partitions you should look at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/community/tips/xp/rtpartin/default.aspx


Regards,
Slobodan

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1. I copy all the files made by target designer in the windows embedded
images folder into a ntfs partition on a second harddrive. This harddrive is
set up with XP professional on partition 1 and my XP Embedded is put on my
4th partition. Boot.ini is then edited so I can choose to boot into the
Embedded installation. When I use only FAT components and set up this
partition with FAT filesystem everything works fine.
2. I've sorted out this point now, thank you very much

 

[Sean Liming \(eMVP\)]

John,

Interesting how FAT works and NTFS doesn't. Under your configuration's settings, what is the drive letter and ARC path for the Target Device Settings?

Have you tried XPe on a seperate machine?


Regards,

Sean Liming
XP Embedded Manager
A7 Engineering (www.a7eng.com)
Author: Windows XP Embedded Advanced and Windows NT Embedded Step-by-Step

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1. I copy all the files made by target designer in the windows embedded images folder into a ntfs partition on a second harddrive. This harddrive is set up with XP professional on partition 1 and my XP Embedded is put on my 4th partition. Boot.ini is then edited so I can choose to boot into the Embedded installation. When I use only FAT components and set up this partition with FAT filesystem everything works fine.

2. I've sorted out this point now, thank you very much

 

[KM]

John,

How big is your NTFS target partition? How much free space left on the partition when you copy pre-FBA image onto it? How big is the image?

By any chance do you run EWF on your runtime?

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KM,
BSquare Corporation
1. I copy all the files made by target designer in the windows embedded images folder into a ntfs partition on a second harddrive. This harddrive is set up with XP professional on partition 1 and my XP Embedded is put on my 4th partition. Boot.ini is then edited so I can choose to boot into the Embedded installation. When I use only FAT components and set up this partition with FAT filesystem everything works fine.

2. I've sorted out this point now, thank you very much