BootVis.exe tool

[Guest]

Hi,

I'm trying to use the BootVis.exe tool to measure my system's boot time.
However the tool, after rebooting runs into an error with the following
message:

"Failed to initialize symbols. Check the environment variable
_NT_SYMBOL_PATH"

First, per this message, I wonder why the tool is trying to load (debug)
symbols?

Anyway, my system is partitioned and one partition contains XPP. The tool
runs fine on this environment (i.e. displays results) but not on XPe
environment.

I checked the XPP environment and it does not have the env variable
_NT_SYMBOL_PATH defined (at least not that I could see). So I'm not sure why
it would complain about this variable in XPe.

Is there anything that may be missing in my custom OS image that could be
causing this error. I've even tried the XPe design template Internet
Appliance without success.

If anyone has any insights that would be great. Or perhaps any other tools
available that can be used to measure boot times.

 

[KM]

George,

Do you have "Primitive: Dbghelp" component in your image configuration?

 

[Guest]

KM,

No, I don't. Is this component needed? I will try adding it and see if
BootVis is then happy. If so I guess I'll have to include it in my image,
although perhaps only in the debug version to get estimates on boot time.

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Thanks,

George

George,

Do you have "Primitive: Dbghelp" component in your image configuration?

 

[Guest]

Thanks KM!

Adding this component fixes the problem, BootVis now works.

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Thanks,

George

George,

Do you have "Primitive: Dbghelp" component in your image configuration?

 

[KM]

Cool! Glad it worked for you

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Regards,
KM

Thanks KM!

Adding this component fixes the problem, BootVis now works.