Comments on: Windows Embedded Standard 2009 Step-by-Step Deployment – Part II

By: Augusto Alvarez

Augusto Alvarez — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:41:26 +0000

Hello Jhonney,
What you are seeing is correct, please check the Post III where is a detailed explanation about the image creation process:
http://blog.augustoalvarez.com.ar/2009/04/26/windows-embedded-standard-2009-step-by-step-deployment-part-iii/
Cheers!
Augusto

By: Johnney

Johnney — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:13:01 +0000

Hi Together :)

I have a HP t5745 Thin Client i need to set up for testing with Windows Embedded Standard.

I tried to create a image with Target Designer, but when I Build the Image it only creates a folder structure:
Documents and Settings, Windows, Program Files and so on..

shouldn’t it be a image file? when I copy the Folders to my USB Drive, the Thin Client does not recognize to boot from it, of course.

What am I doing wrong? :-)

Thanks!

Regards

By: Ran Kalif

Ran Kalif — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:34:20 +0000

P.S.

The last file loaded during FBA is OLE32.dll

Does it helps ?

Ran.

By: Ran Kalif

Ran Kalif — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:25:49 +0000

Hi Augusto,

Well, good news and bad news:
The good news: I was able to start running the “run-time-image” in another partition.
The bad news: after few minutes, running in doal boot from the hard disk, I was asked to insert a disk with file: mssmbios.sys. Just after I point to its location, the system stops and reboot.
This does not happen in the FLASH disk (only when booting from the hard disk).

Any idea?

B.R.

Ran Kalif.

By: Augusto Alvarez

Augusto Alvarez — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:44:31 +0000

If you want the final image running on a Flash drive, the best way is to use a Flash drive to boot the image.
Still another way is to get the drivers from the target machine you are trying to boot for the first time (at least hard drive and video), insert them into the image and boot in the new machine.
BTW: On the last comment of my post regarding XP Embedded Part II it’s a quick explanation on how to insert new drivers into the images.
Hope it helps,
Augusto

By: Ran Kalif

Ran Kalif — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:34:25 +0000

Thank you so much,
So, the virtual machine can not help in run-time-image for first time for image includes drivers.
The other solution is to run it in a different partition (dual boot).
I tried it but got a HAL.dll error (missing or corrupt).
Then I had problem with the boot.ini and I’m to solve that issue.
What is the best why to run the first run-time-image, which is not on the FLASH disk?

B.R.

Ran.

By: Augusto Alvarez

Augusto Alvarez — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:47:00 +0000

Hello Ran,
VirtualPC emulated hardware on a virtual machine does not represents the original hardware, the device drivers you can find them are nothing more than a generic driver that VirtualPC use on a virtual machine.
Here’s quick example, try using a driver that you have working on your physical machine, install it on a VirtualPC virtual machine located in the same hardware: it won’t work.
Basically the drivers you’ve selected using tap.exe will never fit into a VirtualPC machine.
Hope it helps,
Cheers!
Augusto

By: Ran Kalif

Ran Kalif — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:39:01 +0000

Hi Augusto,
It was all done on the same machine. But when try to run the image on the virtual PC (on the same machine) the run-time-image does not start.
Any tip to make it start running?

Ran.

By: Augusto Alvarez

Augusto Alvarez — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:43:20 +0000

Hello Ran,
But on which machine or drive you executed tap.exe? Remember that you should run this tool on a same hardware baseline to get all the necessary and correct drivers.
Cheers!
Augusto

By: Ran Kalif

Ran Kalif — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:41:28 +0000

Hi Augusto,
To make things clear:
1. The image is working perfectly once I run it on a FLASH.
2. When I run the image under Virtual-PC, it doesn’t start even the first blue screen.

I’m doing so in order to save the thousands of write cycles to the FLASH.
So, there is no driver issue, only interfacing between the image and the virtual PC.

B.R.

Ran.

By: Augusto Alvarez

Augusto Alvarez — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 03:45:56 +0000

If the first blue screen does not appear to you, could be relates to a driver problem. Haber you inserted the proper driver into de image?
Cheers!
Augusto

By: Ran Kalif

Ran Kalif — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:47:41 +0000

Dear Augusto,

I have been creating the image with success and run it from the compact flash. However, when I’m trying to run it under virtual PC, the FBA process doesn’t start.
I’m using the virtual PC to save write cycles to the FLASH (as recommended) but this process does not reach to the firs blue screen.
Any advice?

Thank’s,

Ran.

By: Augusto Alvarez

Augusto Alvarez — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:54:06 +0000

Hello Marcelo,
I’m not sure I’m following you on that question, to install what on a virtual machine? The embedded image locally and not using a remote boot server?
Cheers!
Augusto

By: Marcelo

Marcelo — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:57:20 +0000

…And to install in Virtual Machine ?

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