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Re: Problem with PXe SID image locking up         

Group: microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded · Group Profile
Author: Sean Liming (MVP)
Date: Sep 17, 2008 09:24

The problem might be with dual booting the image. For PXE boot, I ran FBA
on hard drive as C drive since in a PXE boot the drive will be C.

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Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit
"Stephen Bashford" mpc-data.co.uk> wrote in message
news:op.uhmixmtjrg0wb1@fuzzyduck.mpc-data.co.uk...
> Hi,
>
> I've produced a stripped down image that I need to PXe Boot. It contains
> the network driver and command shell.
>
> I have sucessfully deployed this on partition 3 of my target hardware.
> This went through FBA with no problem and it boots to my command shell. I
> can run ipconfig and get a DHCP network address. This is just what I want.
>
> I have then extracted the partition onto my development machine to create
> the SDI file. The SDI file is then placed on my Boot Server.
>
> The problem is that my target now PXe boots & downloads the image to the
> ramdisk. When it gets to the end of this download the XP logo appears on
> my target for a few seconds with the 'running status bar'. This then
> freezes and leaves me no choice other than to power off.
>
> Any suggestions how to debug this?
>
> I have to say that I have a different target (similar but a different
> motherboard/network) that I have repeat the same process and everything is
> fine.
>
> TIA
>
> Stephen
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