Re: bootable CD for diskless systems (XPe)

Hi,

Thanks for replies. I am still getting errors in XPE bootable CD. I'll tell
you all the steps in detail, that i followed. Please check it and tell me
what am I doing wrong.

1- Partition target pc's hard drive. C drive size: 643 MB and D: 12GB, while
total hard disk is 40 GB. I formatted both partitions by FAT, from XP
bootable CD and then quit the setup.

2- Next, I made a bootable floppy and ran bootprep.exe on C: from A: and the
process was successfully done.

3- Next on my development pc (where xpe evaluation kit is installed), I made
my run-time image by adding EI Torito CD component. By auto resolving the
dependencies, I got Enhanced Write Filter Component too (and many other). IN
EWF Protected Volume # 1 Settings, I unchecked option "start ewf enabled"
and rest were left to default settings.
Also in EWF's Optimization Option Settings: " Use Less Overlay Space & Less
Writes
" was checked. Then I build my image. Image size was 267MB

4- Target pc's hard disk was attached to development pc as a secondary IDE
slave. iame was copied to it. From the smae image, PRE FBA CD was made using
hd2iso. Where I changed the disk signature in advaced settings as well.

5- The CD-ROM+HARD DISK was then attached to the target pc. Hard Disk:
primary IDE Master, CD ROM: Secondary IDE Master.

6- Then I ran FBA, after FBA was completed, windows embedded were loaded.
And I was able to boot into it. On system tray, one error message appeared:
"Windows Delayed write failed" (Windows were unable to save all the data for
the file E:\. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by the failure
of you computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file
elsewhere.)
System has 2 drives, C: for xpe and D: (empty but partitioned+formatted)+ it
has much unallocated space.

7- Image after expanding, became 339MB.

8- I opened cmd in xpe boot image and ran ewfmgr, ewfmgr c: commands. When I
ran etprep /all on C:\, windows restarted.

9- This image was then converted to ISO image on development pc, using
hd2iso tool Now for POST FBA CD, i didnt set 5th option of hd2iso.(advanced
option)

10- Then I ran POST-FBA CD on the target pc, xpe started loading and then at
welcome page one error message appeared: Isass.exe-System Error (An I/O
operation initiated by registry failed unrecoverably. The registry could not
read in, or write out, or flush, one of the files that contain the system's
image of registry.)
(system is diskless)
11- I clicked ok and windows rebooted and repeated the same process.

12- To check image I connected hard drive again and ran same image (but not
ISO). As I read in some previous post, once etprep /all command runs and
boots the pc successfully, image shouldnt be able to boot again. But in my
case, it did:( When I ran EWFMGR commands, it said there isn't any EWF
protected volume. And when I ran etprep /all, it again rebooted, but it was
able to boot through it AGAIn...and so on......

Is my POST FBA image that i am using to create POST-FBA CD correct? Please
help me I can't fgure out problem myself.
--
Regards,
Kulsum


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