USB boot problem: just blank screen?

[Guest]

Hi,

i have a problem and no clue of a solution.

I have two different devices
- IBM Thinkpad T43
- Standard PC

First, I have build an XPe image for the IBM ThinkPad T43 which boots from
an usb stick -> works well.
Second, I have build an image for my standard pc which boots from the usb
stick too. After booting from the stick I just get a blank screen - no logo,
no fba.

Can someone help me? I used for both devices the TAP.EXE tool.

Franz Coriand

 

[Guest]

Sorry ... I meant I just got a BLACK screen.

Franz

 

[KM]

Franz,

I suppose you have used FP2007 to build both images and included USB 2.0 stack in both.

Since we know nothing about your "Standard PC" one the following is coming to my mind:
- add non-zero timeout to boot.ini so that you can see if at least it gets to boot to the nt loader
- add /sos switch to the default ARC path in your boot.ini so that you can see what drivers get loaded
- check if \windows\fba\FBALog.txt and \windows\setupapi.log files are created on the boot volume of your standard pc (explore
the storage offline on another PC or under another OS boot - e.g., WINPE).

 

[Guest]

Thank your very much - I'll try all these option.

Franz

 

[Guest]

Ok, I tried your suggestions and I got the following results:

On my IBM-Laptop I saw the bootloader and the FBA + Windows wrote the log
files. On my "standard pc" there where no bootloader and no log files (just
the hint: "Searching for Boot Record from USB RMD-FDD...ok" followed by
endless pieps).

I tried these procedure with three different sticks (Kingston DataTraveler,
Sharkeen, no brand - 1GB) and always the same result. :-(

I also tried a Windows 98 stick (Kingston 128MB DataTraveler) and it works
well on the "standard pc", but just Win98. :-(

Do you have any clue?

Franz

 

[KM]

Franz,

How do you prepare the USB stick?
Do you use XPe+FP2007 toolkit?
Do you use ufdprep.exe tool from the toolkit?

Various BIOSes have different implementations and options to set the USB boot off a USB stick. Does you PC support USB 2.0 boot?
Also, is there an option to boot off USB HDD in the BIOS?