Re: bootable CD for diskless systems (XPe)

Kulsum,

> I am trying to make a bootable CD for diskless system, i have some
> questions
> related to it. I hope someone can tell me about them.

Many discusions about El Torito issues you'll be able to find in this NG
archive:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded/search?hl=en&group=microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded&q=El+Torito&qt_g=1


> 1)i am using EI torito to make my CD for XPe. There is no hard disk
> attached
> to my system. Will my boot.ini change? Do i need to change it while
> running FBA?

No changes in boot.ini required if your system partition was the first
primary one on only hard disk presented during FBA.

> 2)Secondly what about RAM? Does RAM matter in this case? I mean if my
> image
> size is 314MB and my RAM is 320MB will this cause any problem?

RAM always matters when you think about your XPe image footprint.
El Torito itself (on XPe using EWF) should not consume much of RAM if you
properly setup the image.
See this tip page on how to minimize EWF RAM usage:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/community/community/tips/xp/ramewf/default.aspx.

> 3)I made an image for bootable CD. My FBA runs perfect ,then when i make
> postFBA ISO image using HD2ISO and run it sometimes gives blue screen STOP
> error

What BSOD (bugcheck/blue screen) info you see?

> and sometimes just goes and stops at Microsoft page.

Do you mean Welcome screen?

> It doesnt logon to
> windows. I dont understand y does this happen. I didnt change boot.ini it
> is
> same as it has to boot from HD partition 1.

You may want to describe what steps extatly you performed to create the
bootable CD.

What type of EWF you use? (should be RAM or RAM Reg but finally there will
be no EWF Config partiton anyway)
Also, watch on whether EWF is enabled just before you capture the image to
ISO.
Make sure you had a CD with El Torito signature in CD-ROM during FBA.
Just before you enalbe EWF and shutdown the device to capture the image,
clean up [HKLMSystem\MountedDevices] key.

KM


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