blank screen with a cursor

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Greg Chu

Hi,

I build an image for my IBM SurePOS, and when tried to boot, it just gives
me a blank screen with a cursor, but if I install XP professional on it
workes fine.

Is there any way to trouble shoot this sinario?

Do we have something like save boot on XPe, so I know where is the problem?

Thanks!
 
Greg,

If you're building a test build the dates/time in the CMOS of the target
must match the date/time of the development machine. If the clocks are off
by 90 days, the image will boot to a blanks screen with a cursor.

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.a7eng.com
Author: Windows NT Embedded Step-By-Step and XP Embedded Advanced.
 
Sean

I checked the date/time and they are about few minutes (not 90 days) off,
and I changed to make them exact. I still get the blank screen with cursor.

Also, when you say test build. do you mean test or release build? All my
builds are release build, any way if I use test build to do something like
save boot in windows, so I can see where the problem is step by step. So I
know which place caused problem.?

I spend almost a week now on this, and always get a blank screen, but I have
no problem when using same procedure build an image for a compaq machine.

Thanks!
 
Hi Greg,
I build an image for my IBM SurePOS, and when tried to boot, it just gives
me a blank screen with a cursor, but if I install XP professional on it
workes fine.
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Blank screen? What color is blank?
If it is calming blue, then your shell is probably failing to start.

Is this a minlogon build?
Are you using custom shell?


Best regards,
Slobodan
 
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