RAM EWF (Mr. Slobodan): no progressbar while booting

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Juergen Striegel

Hello Mr. Slobodan,

this shouldn't be really a problem: I noticed that after installing RAM
EWF as you suggested there is no progress bar anymore (running from the
down left to the right side of the screen) while booting XPE (black
screen after BIOS). The lack of the bar doesn't disturb me but I learned
from the past that I've to be carefully when something isn't behaving
like it did before.
Is this behaviour well known and doesn't mean anything?
 
You are right to be cautious with misbehaved things.

This got nothing to do with EWF if it does then this is unprecedented.

Check your boot.ini file in the root of the boot partition and see if there
is set switch /noguiboot this would manifest as you described. You might
accidentally enabled this.

Regards,
Slobodan
 
Slobodan said:
This got nothing to do with EWF if it does then this is unprecedented.
Check your boot.ini file in the root of the boot partition and see if there
is set switch /noguiboot this would manifest as you described. You might
accidentally enabled this.
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Think, this is a side effect of RAM EWF. I ever had /noguiboot in my
boot.ini. This resulted in a progress bar (white on black) over the
entire width of the screen in textmode(!). Perhaps you know it from
windows 2000.
This is gone. The screen remains black for that time ("is the device on?").
 
What is the first thing you see after BIOS?

It is easy to test if RAM EWF is responsible, just disable component in TD.
Make a build and that is it.

BTW: are you using my component of have you created your own by
instructions.

Also if you are using my component then you probably notices that it is
relying on MS EWF binaries stored in some of repositories.
And only thing that differ is few additional registry keys, and removed FBA
creation of partition.

Since you are mentioning progress bar black on white, it exists in XPe as
well but it is shown only when you boot from some awfully slow device like
CD and it is there for few seconds.

I hope that you are using ntldr. ntdetect from win XPe not from Win 2000.
And in any case open boot.ini with notepad and check what is written there.

Regards,
Slobodan
 
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