What triggers the ewf to be disabled during boot?

[Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras]

Hi!

In some situations the ewf disables itself during boot, when the
complete harddisk (in fact it is a CF card) is copied to another disk,
and the system is being booted from this disk, or when new hardware is
found.

Is there some way to do this manually when having this CF in the card
reader of a normal PC? I want to roll out CF cards being prepared to
have the EWF disabled during their first boot on the target hardware,
but the FBA already had been run once on the master target...

Thank you for any input.

Ralph.

 

[Sean Liming \(eMVP\)]

If you setup EWF with RAM overlay, you might have lost the EWF volume
partition when you copied it to another hard disk. Is this the case?

The better alternative is to use RAM (Reg).

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental
Toolkit

 

[Ralph A. Schmid, dk5ras]

If you setup EWF with RAM overlay, you might have lost the EWF volume
partition when you copied it to another hard disk. Is this the case?

The better alternative is to use RAM (Reg).

We do so. The problem is another one; I make a working image on a
machine, then I copy it to a number of CF cards, and when they are
booted the first time in the target hardware, I must be able to force
them that during the first boot the ewf is not active, as some
settings have to be made automatically, dependent from a connected
device. So the machine boots, does some settings, reboots
automatically, and then the ewf must be active.

This seems to work when I format the CF again and do a filecopy of the
content from the master to the target CF, but this takes ways to long,
especially during development, when you change a small thing and then
have to wait 20 minutes to copy the files


Ralph