Re: Bootable HD Setup
From: KM (konstmor_at_nospam_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/06/04
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Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:38:47 -0700
GPSer,
You did definitely pass to the boot.ini (ntldr). Otherwise you wouldn't have seen the loading progress bar ("Starting Windows") and
later screens.
The question is what ntldr and boot.ini you used? Seems like you use the files from W2K hard disk. Is it possible?
You do not absolutely need files like io.sys, msdos.sys, etc. (this is from DOS or Win95/98/Me OS if you had it installed
previously). You can safely delete these files.
--
Regards,
KM, BSquare Corp.
> A couple more notes--
>
> *I did add timeout=30 to the boot.ini. Don't see the boot menu so it must not be getting past there.
> *Tried using the BOOTPREP utility. Didn't help.
> *Made sure I had all the empty files found on my XP laptop (e.g. IO.SYS) on the HD with the same attributes. Didn't help.
> I'm going to install Win2000 on this HD and try it from there.....
>
> "GPSer" wrote:
>
> > Pardon the long post, but I've spent considerable time messing with this so there's a lot to talk about...... My basic problem
is I've got a little PC-104 x86 compatible processor with very meager capabilities. I can boot from flash (the eventual goal) or
from an external IDE drive (but can't have both connected at the same time). It's possible, in theory, to boot from floppy, but I
have not kludged that HW in. Bios does not support booting from CD (but I can hook up CD and HD at same time). I've built an
embedded XP image that may work on my target, but can't get the HD to be bootable. I'm a telecommuter and have a laptop with XP (my
company has the install CDs) and have a standard machine with Win2000 (I have the install CDs for that machine). I hooked the
target's HD to the Win2000 machine, booted into WinPE from my XP embedded install CD and used DISKPART to make 4 partitions on the
HD. #1 is about 2GB and is formatted as FAT. The other 3 are about 12GB each and formatted to NTFS. I made partition 1 "active". I
copied the XPE image (created on my laptop) to partition 1 of the target HD along with the NTLDR and NTDETECT files from my laptop
(remember, it's an XP machine). The image contained a BOOT.INI and WERUNTIME.INI (what's that???) files already. When I did the
copy, the machine hosting the HD was the desktop machine which was running Win2000 at that time.
> >
> > When I start the target with the HD attached, I see the initial dos-like (B&W) screen with the "Starting Windows" message and
the windows progress bar. A message is immediately displayed "Windows 2000 could not start because of an error in the software.
Please report this problem as: load needed DLLs for kernel. Please contact your support person to report this problem."
> >
> > The "Windows 2000" message gives me pause. It's not coming from BOOT.INI and I partitioned the HD with WinPE (running on the
desktop machine that has only Win2000 installed). I avoided running Disk Manager in Win2000 in case there may be some
incompatibility. Somehow my HD picked up a reference to Win2000, however.
> >
> > Here's the BOOT.INI:
> > [boot loader]
> > timeout=0
> > default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
> > [operating systems]
> > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Embedded" /fastdetect
> >
> > I'm brand new at this, but just got back from DevCon where I had lots of hands-on in the lab sessions. These machines all had
regular version of XP installed, however, and I never thought to ask about starting from scratch. For what it's worth, I'm using the
eval version of XPE I got at the conference with the update to SP2 beta. I have the retail version coming, but it's not here yet.
> >
> > As a recap, here's my machine summary and the steps I followed:
> >
> > LAPTOP (WinXP/SP1 + XPE/SP2 eval version)
> > DESKTOP (Win2000) networked to LAPTOP
> > TARGET (x86 Geode)
> >
> > Booted Desktop to WinPE using XPE install CD
> > Used DISKPART to clear the HD and create 4 partitions (2GB, 12GB, 12GB, 12GB)
> > Assigned drive letters to the partitions
> > Formated Partition 1 to FAT, others to NTFS (full format)
> > Marked Partition 1 as "active"
> > Rebooted the Desktop to Win2000
> > Created an XPE image on the laptop using "Standard PC", WinLogin, basic IDE, keyboard and such. Included both NTFS and FAT
> > Mounted the target HD over the network and copied down the XPE files along with NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM from my laptop. Also
included TA and TAP (I tried to boot the target from flash into its version of free DOS and run TA, but TA won't run.....).
> > Restrapped the HD as master and connected it to the target.
> > Rebooted and got the error described above.
> >
> > I don't know if the issue is connected to the boot sector, the image I built or something else. Any thoughts????
> >
> > Cheers
> > Al
> >
> >
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