Re: Need help with making bootable CD with XPe (stuck at welcome screen)

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Bob,

You have too complex test scenario.
Please try this on real computer and not on VmWare virtual machine.

When you do RAM boot then boot medium is not important. So you should test
it directly from HDD to reduce number of steps that you do and to ease
yourself prodcedure and time required for tests.

I have no clue why you have this error if files are in RAM disk.

Regards,
Slobodan






<bobhopper13@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1115397455.487240.304960@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I've followed your advice and am going straight to a boot-from-RAM
> approach. Unfortunately I'm still having problems.
>
> I created an base image including RAM drive support. I booted this in a
> virtual machine and let the FBA process run, then shut down the
> machine. I then created another SDI disk and put boot.ini,
> ntdetect.com, ntldr, and my other SDI (runimg.sdi) on it. I altered the
> boot.ini to read:
>
> [boot loader]
> timeout=1
> default=ramdisk(0)\WINDOWS
> [operating systems]
> ramdisk(0)\WINDOWS="XPe from RAM" /fastdetect
> /rdpath=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\runimg.sdi
> /rdimageoffset=4096
>
> (that last line may have wrapped, but it's all on one line)
>
> I then ran hd2iso to make an ISO. I created a new virtual machine with
> no hard disk and point the CD to this ISO image. When it boots, I see
> the "Loading RAMDISK image" message and the progress bar completes.
> Then I get the following:
>
> Windows could not start because the following file is missing or
> corrupt:
> <Windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
> Please re-install a copy of the above file.
>
> Any ideas where I went wrong?
>


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