freeze on boot after FBA

[Guest]

Hello,

I go through the FBA without any apparent problem. The system then does it's
automated reboot immediately after FBA - that's successful.

The problem is when I initiate a reboot after that point. without doing
anything else on the system The system freezes after the progress bar is
finished. In some cases, instead of a freeze, I get a BSOD indicating that
the disk is unmountable.

Before transferring the XPe image to the IDE HDD target, I used fdisk to
make the partition active and ran bootprep /dC. I'm not using EWF.

Does anyone have an idea of why the automated reboot from FBA is successful
and the reboot that I initiate fails. Why would the disk become unmountable
between the automated reboot and the reboot that I manually initiate?

Thanks,

Art

 

[Stuart Langley]

Check fbalog.txt, setupact.log, setupapi.log and setuperr.log for some ideas
as to what might be going wrong.

Also turn off the progress bar and turn on the boot messages to observe the
drivers loading and see if it hangs on a certain driver.

Regards,

Stuart

 

[Guest]

Thanks. How do I turn off the progress bar and turn on the boot messages?

Art

 

[Oren Winter [MS]]

Use the /sos flag in boot.ini. For example:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect /sos