Re: Ramdisk Load error with Remote Boot Service?

From: KM (konstmor_at_nospam.yahoo.com)
Date: 03/12/04 

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:51:33 -0800

Mark,

There is no particular requirement to have RAM double size of your image.
Although, as the image is copied and ran from RAM it should definitely be
enough to fit the entire image + some memory enough to run your image
(depending on your image memory consumption).

400Mb image is pretty big, though 512RAM may be enough.

How did you use sdimgr to capture the image?
If you run "sdimgr your.sdi" what output do you see? Can you copy and paste
it here?
Search this NG archive for sdimgr to see how exactly you have to capture the
post-FBA image (concern on BLOB sections inside your SDI). 

--
 KM,
    BSquare Corporation
> Hey guys, I built an embedded image, deployed it onto a machine by just
copying over what I was supposed to as per msdn tech articles.  I also
included the Windows Ram Disk component, and the System Cloning Utility
component..  Ran the Image, it proceeded through both FBA, rebooted, and
then I received the Machine Resealed Message, I booted the machine to my
second hard drive that contained XP PRO.  I captured the "Golden Image"
using sdi manager and I was attemtping to load it via the Remote Boot
Service Manager included with the windows embedded development package.  It
proceeded through "Loading Ramdisk Image" until about the 75% mark when I
received the following error.....
>
> Windows Could not Start due to an Error While Loading from RamDisk.
>
> Windows Failed to open the RamDisk Image...
>
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?  My image is less than 400 mb and I believe
the machines have like 512 memory.  I remember reading something about the
memory being double the size of the image.  Would this cause that error?
Stripping it down even further is just a pain but if I have to I have to.
>
> Does anyone else have any first hand experience with this, or know a
solution to this issue....Thanks!
>
> -Mark

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