Slobodan-
I will agree with that, but if you are going to make it
difficult, at least make the resources available to make
it easier to understand how and why.
The HOWTO on building an image is fine, but stops there.
Why not go on to tell you how to make a bootable cd. The
documentation on that is absolutely no help. I have gone
step by step about 10 times, and I don't have a bootable
cd. I have absolutely no idea what or why I am doing the
things I am doing.
The harder to understand the product, the harder to
justify spending the money on it.
Sorry for the ranting, but it just seems like everyone on
this newsgroup has the same problems, and there are no
good solutions to any of them.
-----Original Message-----
It's more appropriate to say that MS did not make it easy
to do this.
They simply made it work, and they stopped there.
It's up to you to understand all things that need to be
done (and why they
need to be done), and to apply them properly.
Sorry,
Slobodan
message
I don't understand why MS has make it so incredibly
tedious and difficult to make a bootable cd out of an
already working booting hard drive. Incredible. I was
able
to do this with linux in about 1/2 a day. 2 weeks into
this and still no beans.
-----Original Message-----
Since you have chosen to use EWF then this means that
you
are trying to
create El-Torito CD.
Search in product documentation for El-Torito, there
you
will find steps you
need to perform so you can make bootable CD.
Also search this news group for El-Torito by using
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-
8&oe=UTF-
8&group=microsoft.
public.windowsxp.embedded
Regards,
Slobodan
Ok, I think I just did this successfully. I got the
following output from doing ewfmgr c:
Protected Volume Configuration
Type RAM
State DISABLED
Volume ID CD CC CD CC 00 20 7A 5D 08 00 00
00 00
00 00 00
Device Name "\Device\HarddiskVolume2" [C:]
Max Levels 1
Clump Size 512
Current Level 1
Memory used for data 0 bytes
Memory used for mapping 0 bytes
So I did a ewfmgr -enable c:
So what should I do know? Make the iso? Thanks for
all
your help!
Paul
-----Original Message-----
For CD or RAM disk boot your boot volume must be C:.
One way to do this you can find here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/embedded/community/tips/x
p/runtimepartition
..asp
Second you need to configure RAM EWF to protect OS
partition this requires
you to enter valid partition path.
You can read more info from doc contained in
ramewf.zip
on
www.xpefiles.com
Regards,
Slobodan
in
message
Ok, I just created an image, and moved it over to
my
E:
drive. FBA looks like in completed wonderfully.
So I
booted into the XPE image, everything looks good,
but
when
I do a 'ewfmgr' it says it can't find an ewf
partition,
or
something to that effect. Even though it said
that I
did a
etprep -all. Should I do an hd2iso, or is there
something
wrong with ewf? Here is the output from
fbalog.txt:
11:01:41 AM - ConfigureEwf() Start.
11:01:42 AM - Getting EWF config parameters from
registry.
11:01:42 AM - EWF Partition Size = 250000
(KBytes),
Levels = 1, Volumes = 1.
11:01:42 AM - Protected Volume Config #0 :
11:01:42 AM - Disk= 1,Part= 2,DiskType=
IDE,Type=
RAM.
11:01:42 AM - Enable= Disabled, Optimize= 0,
LazyWrite= N.
11:01:42 AM - Found 1 Hard Disks.
11:01:42 AM - Searching for El Torito disk.
11:01:42 AM - Disk0 signature = 0xCCCDCCCD.
11:01:42 AM - Checking Start value in
System\CurrentControlSet\Services\redbook key.
11:01:42 AM - Resetting Start value.
11:01:42 AM - Checking Start value in
System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Imapi key.
11:01:42 AM - Resetting Start value.
11:01:42 AM - Disk #0 layout info:
11:01:42 AM - PRIMARY
partition,start=0x0000000000007e00,
len=0x000000085d79a200, type= 7
11:01:42 AM - PRIMARY
partition,start=0x000000085d7a2000,
len=0x00000000289b0000, type= 7
11:01:42 AM - FREE
partition,start=0x0000000886152000,
len=0x0000000010266000, type= 0
11:01:43 AM - Allocating EWF in PRIMARY
partition,
start=0x0000000886152000, len=0x000000000000fc00.
11:01:43 AM - Created EWF partition on Disk = 0,
partition = 3,size = 0x000000000000fc00 .
11:01:43 AM - ewfOpen.
11:01:43 AM - ewfOpen returned invalid file
handle.
11:01:43 AM - Deleting EWF Partition #3,
disk#=0,
type=69
11:01:44 AM - ConfigureEwf() End, status = 0x57.
11:01:44 AM - [CallEntryPointThread]
C:\WINDOWS\system32
\ewfdll.dll, ConfigureEwf (Error: 0x57)
-----Original Message-----
You need to do either RAM Boot from CD, or EL-
Torito CD
boot.
If you use El-Torito.
You might not care about OS writes to CD, but
drivers
will certainly fail
such requests if you don't use RAM overlay.
Use google to search this NG for how to do this,
it
was
discussed many times
during last month.
Regards,
Slobodan
"Paul" <
[email protected]>
wrote
in
message
Ok. This is what I want to do. I am having a
ton
of
trouble getting XPE to work properly, so I am
going
to
start one from scratch and tell you all what I
am
trying
to do, and maybe get some hints and tips from
you
all.
What I want: I want to create a bootable cd
that I
can
throw into ANY machine(these machines are
identical),
and
have it boot into Windows XP. I don't think I
need a
RAM
overlay since I could care less about changes
being
saved.
I just need a bootable windowsxp machine that
can
touch
the network.
What I have done: I have run tap.exe and
inported
all
the
deivices, and added the custom scsi adaptor
driver.
Can someone give me kind of a run through on
what
I
need
to do to make this work? I have been trying to
get
this
to
for for 2 weeks now without any success...I am
getting
VERY frustrated....
Thanks in advance!
Paul
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