Re: Strange Eltorito Boot CD Problem

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Hi Mike,

I just reread your original post. If I understand correctly, your
problem is that your old, known good boot CD will not boot on new
hardware.

This means that you will need to modify the configuration in Target
Designer and rebuild the boot CD. I would suggest booting the system
off of the XP Embedded Install CD Disk 1. This boots into WinPE, and
you can then run the Target Analyzer Probe (TAP.EXE), (Run TAP /? from
the command line for syntax.) The TAP.exe program outputs a
devices.pmq that contains the list of hardware devices for your system.


If I recall correctly, many systems actually use the same microsoft
drivers for such things as the PCI bridge, the system clock and so
forth, but anything with A PCI signature gets a different INF file for
each motherboard mfr. So, your problem might be that the new hardware
is just not recognized because the proper INFs are not present in your
config. You can ADD the new devices found in the devices.pmq file to
the old Target Designer config, that way the new build should work on
all old and new motherboards.

The best references I have found for re-creating the El Torito CD are:

http://blogs.msdn.com/embedded/archive/2005/06/07/425939.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xpehelp/html/xeconElToritoCDAsDisk.asp

Also search this newsgroup for your chipset # and for "El Torito" and
similar to find more about your specific motherboard.

SteveS
StevesATeyeDASHimagingDOTcom






Mike Warren wrote:
A couple of years ago I created a generic XPE boot CD to use
for image recovery and this has worked on all our machines,
both Intel and AMD based. This just runs our Win32 based
recovery program as the shell which determines which image
to restore on the machine.

We have just started using a new SBC and I can't get our
recovery CD to boot. All that shows on the screen after
POST is:

Boot from CD
1. HD System Type-(06)

The machine just sits there, unresponsive and I have to
power it down.

I have tried many other boot CDs including WinPE, BartPE,
XP Pro and DOS CDs, both commercial and ones I have made,
and they all boot on this machine fine.

I have also tried my recovery CD on every desktop computer
I could find and it boots fine on them.

I'm at a complete loss. Does anyone have a clue where I
go next?

Is there any other method of creating a bootable XPe CD
image apart from the HdToIso method?

--
Mike

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