XPe Development and reference material question.

[Ten]

Hi,

I'm new to XPe but a long time Windows wonk. I have researched XPe on the
MS site, read many many articles and created a couple of simple XPe runtime
images that booted on my development box. So, somewhat successful to this
point.

My development platform is W2KServer. This is a machine that I have been
using for several years for web/.NET/web services development and is very
reliable and has all my aux. tools installed. I'd prefer to use this
machine exclusively for development/testing of the XPe image but I can't get
the system to dual boot.

I have the ARC set correctly to point to the second (slave) HD but it blue
screens with 0x0000007b. My guess is this may be caused by the 2kServer
boot loader not being compatible with XPe in some way.

Q1: Do I need to be running XP (to I get the XP boot loader on the primary
drive) so I can dual boot between my development system and the XPe image?

Q2: Can I transfer an XP boot loader onto my 2kserver box to fix this
problem. My guess is 'no'.

Thanks,
Nick.

 

[Martin Grossen [AVNET Silica]]

Hi Nick

The bootloader from 2k and XP(E) are not compatible.
The only way is to copy the loaders during boottime.
There are some 3. party tools. (i.e. boot-commander)

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Martin Grossen

AVNET EMG Silica
FM/FAM Microsoft Embedded Europe

Your competent partner for Microsoft Embedded licencing

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[Jon Fincher (MS)]

My development platform is W2KServer. This is a machine that I have
been using for several years for web/.NET/web services development and
is very reliable and has all my aux. tools installed. I'd prefer to use
this machine exclusively for development/testing of the XPe image but I
can't get the system to dual boot.

I have the ARC set correctly to point to the second (slave) HD but it
blue screens with 0x0000007b. My guess is this may be caused by the
2kServer boot loader not being compatible with XPe in some way.

Q1: Do I need to be running XP (to I get the XP boot loader on the
primary drive) so I can dual boot between my development system and the
XPe image?

Q2: Can I transfer an XP boot loader onto my 2kserver box to fix this
problem. My guess is 'no'.

The XP boot loader (NTLDR) is backwards compatible, so you shouldn't have
a problem booting Win2K if you replace NTLDR with the XP version.

 

[Martin Grossen [AVNET Silica]]

Hi Jon!

Hey!!!! That solve my boot problem on my laptop!
I havn't had the courage to replace the loader, yet!



Thanks
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Martin Grossen

AVNET EMG Silica
FM/FAM Microsoft Embedded Europe

Your competent partner for Microsoft Embedded licencing

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