Re: System Hangs with Hive Registry - Only when flash card present at boot

sean@xxxxxxx wrote in
news:1118872317.683450.245950@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> We have recently integrated IPSM 3.8 and hive registry (stored
> using IPSM) into our pxa270, CE 5.0 board. Everything works
> perfect except when the unit is booted with a compact flash card
> present. The unit boots all the way, but nothing is usable (ie,
> cannot execute an application, although explorer comes up and the
> mouse still works). I've tried loading the PCMCIA driver in the
> first boot phase to no avail. If I remove the hive registry
> component from the build, everything works fine again, so this is
> not an IPSM problem. Another note... CF ethernet cards work just
> fine at boot, its only CF storage cards that have problems.
> Lastly, if I boot the unit without a CF storage card present, I
> can insert one after the unit is booted and everything works fine.
> I have put retails msg's in the ATA Disk driver, and it looks
> like it is functioning properly... is device.exe or filesys.exe
> hanging? I can't use the remote tools to analyze the problem
> because Active Sync doesn't work (nor does anything else) when the
> flash card is present during boot. Any ideas?
>

Check that the flag that allows CE to store registry hives on the
storage media is not set for the CF.
Do you have a KITL compatible network adapter on your board?
(if you are using a NE2000 that would mean having 2 CF slots, I
suppose)
If a network adapter is available you can download a debug image and
check the debug output or the state of the system.
If you can't debug on that board, you may build the image defining
BSP_DBGSER_UART1=1. This will dump debug messages on the FFUART.

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Valter Minute
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