Re: Problems with Booting XPe from CD-ROM

Sean: Regarding step 4 below: I haven't seen a need to manually issue an
enable command to EWFMGR when running etprep. Etprep takes care of adding
the registry keys needed to run in RAM (Reg) mode and deletes the EWF
volume, negating any changes to EWF's RAM-mode configuration, so that call
to EWFMGR would seem superfluous. Could you briefly explain what that extra
step is about? (Or is it that the extra step was needed in SP1 and is no
longer needed in SP2 and above?)

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Matt Kellner
SDET, Microsoft Windows XP Embedded Test Team

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"Sean Liming (eMVP)" <sean_liming@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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1. Are you using FP2007? There have been some improvements.
2. With the two partitions on the disk, I assume the rest of the drive is
left unpartioned. Is this Correct?
3. Is EWF set to NOT run on start?
4. One extra step that has changed the instructions from SP1 to SP2 to
FP2007, is the need to run EWFMGR c: -enable before Etrpep -all.
5. Are you using the HD2ISO utility to create teh ISO images?

When the image reboots after etprep, the image on the drive will almost
always BOSD. there is nothing that can be done to the final image. Just
create the final ISO.

Why Taskmanager Shell is behaving differently that Command shell is a bit
of a mistery. I just went through the steps for a customer recently and
Command Shell worked just fine.

Regards,

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



"Alexander" <boegelsack@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,
I've tried to boot a XP Embedded image from CD-ROM like described in
Chapter 11 of the XP Embedded Advanced book from Sean D. Liming. My
target is the Pentium based VMEBus Single Board Computer VR9 from SBS,
the HD is a 6 GB Microdrive from Hitachi, my drive is the DVD-R/-RW
drive SD-R6112 from Toshiba. Because there is no possiblity to connect
further IDE devices to that board, I've connected the driver via an
adapter to an USB port of the target board.
The image has been generated by first importing the Target Analyzer
informations about my target board and then adding the necessary EWF
and El Torito components and the Command Shell like described in the
book.
The first problem I have encountered is that after having booted the
image from disk with the Pre-FBA El Torito Disk in the drive ewfmgr
reported "Unable to find an Ewf volume" and ewfmgr c: reported "Failed
getting protected volume configuration with error 1" also the contents
of fbalog.txt showed that the EWF volume had been created. Diskpart
also found the 32 KB EWF volume after the two primary partitions I had
created on the disk (C: 160 MB, D: 900 MB). Furthermore the El Torito
disk had not been found.
I've solved this problem by replacing the Command Shell component by
the Task Manager Shell like in the EWF example in Chapter 10 of the
book from Sean Liming. Now my el torito disk had been found and ewfmgr
and ewfmgr c: yielded the expected outputs like described in the book.
In the explorer the following three partitions were visible:
C: 160 MB
D: 899 MB
F: 160 MB
E is the DVD drive. I assume that F is the El Torito drive generated
by the El Torito driver.

But now if I call etprep -all I get the following messages:
Deleted EWF partitions = 1
Start value for Redbook/IMAPI services has been reset to zero.
Failed to swap El Torito disk drive letter. Error = 0x1.

After that the system automatically reboots which ends with a BSOD
with the following outputs:
STOP: c000007b {Bad Image}
The application or DLL \??\C:\WINDOWS\system32\shsvcs.dll is not a
valid windows image. Please check this against your installation
diskette.

Every reboot brings this Blue Screen again.

So my two questions are: Why I need the Task Manager Shell to let the
El Torito Disk found and let ewfmgr find the EWF volume and why the
swapping of the disk drive letters get failed (I assume that the Blue
Screen is a consequence of this). I've read in a message on this topic
that USB drives will not function. Is this really true?

Who can help me? Any hint will be appreciated.





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