Re: Blank PID and eval still generates license vio

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From: KM (konstmor_at_nospam_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/09/04

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    As he mentioned IDE0/IDE2 config I would also ask if the flash card partition is marked as active and system (boot)?
    If not, the C:\ would probably be on HDD (IDE2) (assuming it is marked as active and system). 

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        KM, BSquare Corp.
> Hi,
> Read:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/community/community/tips/xp/rtpartin/default.aspx
>
> Also can you post your content of boot.ini that you use?
> Do you have more than one disk or you use second partition?
>
> Best regards,
> Slobodan
>
>
> "landon" <landon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:7C80988A-1F71-4FF3-AD79-73F1B4F06372@microsoft.com...
> > "Slobodan Brcin (eMVP)" wrote:
> >
> > > Only thing I can say is that you should keep date and time on your target device correct and keep PID number valid or
completely
> > > empty.
> > >
> > > So check:
> > > 1. date and time.
> > > 2. PID number to be blank.
> >
> > As a followup - before my original post, I had checked these two items to
> > make sure they weren't the problem.  I've double checked them again.
> >
> > Additional tests/experiments I've done since the original post:
> >
> > 1) Per Heidi's suggestion of an incorrectly sized boot partitition, I set
> > target boot partition (TD device settings) to 977, 975 (was originally 1024),
> > even 5000.  None of these worked and always resulted in a
> > SYSTEM_LICENSE_VIOLATION.  (Recall, I'm going to a 1Gig Flash with a single
> > partition.)
> >
> > 2) I dug out the FBALOG.txt and found something interesting.
> >
> > One of the first lines was:
> > 20:46:59 PM -  [FBASetProgressText] Setting PNP Flag...
> >  20:47:33 PM -  [FBAFixWindowsPathsInRegistry] Incorrect WinDir:
> > [C:\WINDOWS] should be [D:\WINDOWS]
> >
> > After that followed a multitude of invalid path errors up to the point where
> > the reset flag got set and it rebooted into the SYSTEM_LICENSE_VIOLATION.
> >
> > Example:
> >  20:47:34 PM -  [FBAProcessRegisterDLLs] 65536075 -> Invalid Path:
> > [C:\WINDOWS\FBA\FBALIB.DLL]
> >
> > 3) This same CPU/target device with BIOS settings unchanged, FBA'd a 512MB
> > Flash (EWF RAM Overlay) with no problems.  The only difference is that in the
> > config I'm trying now, I want an IDE HD on IDE2 for the EWF Volume.
> >
> > My EWF config is pretty straight forward:
> >   1Gig flash is a single partition, no unallocated space - boots on IDE
> > 0primary, master
> >   1 IDE HD, 8.5Gig partition + about 580MB of unallocated space - sits on
> > IDE 2, master
> >
> > The arcpath is multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1) - plus I don't think
> > there's a problem with the arcpath since it gets into FBA without any
> > problems.  This same arcpath works fine with other CF configurations I've
> > tried on this same hardware.
> >
> > 4) I've also used a known valid PID, still get the same issue -
> > SYSTEM_LICENSE_VIOLATION  stop code 9a
> >
> > Anyway, those are other things I've tried with no avail.  Any leads based on
> > this new info would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Landon
>
>
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