FBA Taking ages

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I have created an XPE image, nothing fancy (176MB) to run on a Virtual PC.
When i boot the image, having copied it across, I get a black screen and the
load on my dev machine stays on 100%. I let it run for over 2hrs and gave up.

- Dev: Using a laptop 1.6GKHz, 500 M Ram.
- Target VPC , 128 M Ram, 256 Gig HD

I turned off a number of services on the dev machine and got use RAM down to
360M fom above 500M.
I closed teh devleopment tools before running.
Also, I did change the VPC HD from 64M to 256M when I saw the size of the
built the image without redoing TAP (I'm interested in a minimal build.. but
I 'll chase that later).

Any ideas??

David Jones
Senior Lecturer
School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
RMIT University
+61 3 99255318
 
Still waiting.
I installed XPE onto a much faster desktop with plenty of RAM and the
development is lots quicker.

Created new VM on VPC , 16 Gig HD and 513 RAM


But the FBA is still not working.
It boots past BIOS then just get a black screen.
The desktop shows 30-40% activity, quite variable.
Left it for 4.5hrs and stilll doing the same: (Machine is a Dual Xeon 3.2G).


????

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David Jones
Senior Lecturer
School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
RMIT University
+61 3 99255318
 
Been persisting with this issue.
Try to get the failure to be reproducable rather than having it randomly
working sometimes and not others.

I think the problem is:
When creating the new partion on the Virtaul HD, need to mark the partition
as active (as per page 5 of
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...emonstrateWindowsXPEmbeddedUsingVirtualPC.asp
)

Note that marking it as active after copying the iamge files to the
partition doesn't solve the problem. Need to recreate teh aprtition, mark it
as active, reboot, format, and copy image files.

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From the above URL:
Preparing the Virtual Disk with Windows PE
To prepare the Virtual Disk, you must partition the disk and then format the
partition.

Partition the Disk
To start your new Virtual Machine, use the Windows PE CD (CD 1 of your
Windows Embedded tools). (The Windows XP Embedded evaluation CD is available
at this web site.

(Comment: Note I am using an ISO image of CD1 of the full release of WinXP)

Type the following command from a command prompt: DISKPART
Type the following commands to create the partition:
SELECT DISK 0
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
This creates a 16 GB partition.

Type the following command to verify the partition:
LIST PARTITION
Type the following commands to verify that the partition is active:
SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE <<<--- Critical
Type EXIT to quit DISKPART.
Type EXIT again to reboot Windows PE.
Format the Partition
At the command prompt, type the following command to format the new partition:

FORMAT C: /FS:NTFS /q

You then copy files to the partition through a network share.



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David Jones
Senior Lecturer
School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
RMIT University
+61 3 99255318
 
I went back to my laptop and did taht (active partition) and it now works too.
So making the partition active in DISKPART is the solution.
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David Jones
Senior Lecturer
School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
RMIT University
+61 3 99255318
 
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