Virtual PC 2004

[Brad Combs]

NG,

Is anyone working with VPC 2004 with their runtimes? I'm using the "Fixed
Size" disk at 2GB (my runtime disk size matches), booted to DOS, ran
bootprep, booted to WinPE mapped a drive and copied the runtime over, but
the VPC doesn't start. It goes through POST and reboots continuously. Any
help is appreciated.

Brad Combs
Imago Technologies

 

[Slobodan Brcin]

Hi Brad,

I don't use this kind of devices at all, but I have question related to
preparing bootable disk.

Why are you using DOS if you can run WinPE?

From WinPE you can use diskpart to
1. clean - Clean disk.
2. partition - Make partitions you need.
3. active - Activate partition for boot.
4. assign - Assign drive letter

format /FS:FAT /V:lab /y
Partition is always bootable after this. I have tested this, you can use FAT
or NTFS it is irelevant.

It is enough just to copy files to this partition, and that is it.
You can use selfextracting file for this, or any other way.



Regards,
Slobodan

 

[Brad Combs]

Nope, any other ideas?

I had a similar problem with rebooting. In the target
device settings you should make sure the Boot ARC path is
correct. I am installing my OS to C:\ and the boot path
is :
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)

I think the partition setting was wrong when I had a
similar boot problem. You may be able to change the
boot.ini file as well

Hope this helps

Ryan

 

[Slobodan Brcin]

1. Use this procedure to prepare disk (so you know that you have valid MBR,
and PBR)
2. copy ntldr.
3. copy boot.ini with multi choices, and set timeout to some value so you
can see os choice.
No more files required to do this. If you can see os choice the rest you
know.

If not, try desperate options in BIOS:
Try only this disk bootable.
Remove network boot.
Other device boot, etc.

BTW:
I have this problem with USB Disk on Intel MB. It can't even load (ntldr and
boot.ini). But It works on all other computers.

Regards,
Slobodan