Re: UPDATE: El Torito Boot CD - USB CD-ROM


XP by itself doesn't boot from USB devices. The latest release of XPe
Feature Pack 2007 adds support for USB Boot 2.0, and it supports booting XPe
from USB flash disks.

With this new feture, is it possible to boot from a USB CD-ROM? I don't
know.

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded
SupplementalToolkit



"PJC" <pjcarter12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Has anyone done this? Had any luck by doing this and adding USB Boot 2.0
and USB NT Hardware Detect (ntdetect.com) ?

"PJC" <pjcarter12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Update to this problem:

With Sean's help below (Pre-FBA CD) the process does work - but only from
an IDE CD-ROM

The issue now is that we must use a USB-CD ROM.

I can boot other CDs including Windows PE created CDs from the USB CD ROM
on my target device.

What is different about running Windows XPE from a USB CDROM as opposed
to Windows PE? (other than EWF)-

This application for Windows XPE would only run for a limited period of
time - maybe an hour - not days. If we do not use EWF can we run our
Windows XPE image in the same way that Windows PE runs?

For our application - Windows XPE is preferable to Windows PE because we
can run the explorer shell that our technicans (and I use the term
"technicians" loosely) are used to and launch diagnostic tools to test
our devices in the field and possibly re-install software (Also an XPE
image).

Maybe the Microsoft guys have something in here?

PJC

"Sean Liming (eMVP)" <sean_liming@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You need to create a Pre-FBA CD before you boot the image through FBA.
The El-Torito driver is a PnP driver and requires the Pre-FBA CD in
order to load the driver. You should also disable EWF via the setting in
TD so it is not enabled on start-up. Once the image has compeleted FBA,
enabled EWF using EWFMGR and then run ETPREP.

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded
SupplementalToolkit


"PJC" <pjcarter12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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All,

I could use some help creating an El Torito boot CD with Windows XP
Embedded.

I have read the tutorials on MSDN and adpated them as best I can to our
environment.

Here are the steps I have taken so far:

Created an XPE OS in Target Designer, including EWF, Explorer Shell, El
Torito Components and all dependencies

Placed the OS on a hard drive, with 1 partition, formated to FAT32 and
placed the hard drive in the target device and let FBA run.

FBA runs - the OS comes up great. I then run ETPREP /all

The target system shuts down and before it reboots - I disconnect it,
remove the hard drive and place the hard drive in my development PC.
(it shows up as the F: drive)

Next I run HD2ISO. The hard drive in question is Physical Drive 0
Select partition 1
Set the ISO image path
Advanced Options
Select 74-Minute CD
Specify Disk Signature to match the disk signature in Target Designer
El Torito component (in HEX)
(0x4F544C45)
Change the Volume Name to BOOTTEST
and select partition 1 to boot

I then create the ISO Image.

I burn the ISO Image to a CD ROM using NERO Burning ROM

The CD of course shows no files in Windows Explorer (expected)

I boot the target device from the CD and the BIOS boot screen says:

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


Can anyone suggest what steps are going wrong here?

THANKS!









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