[syslinux] 1 model out of a dozen hangs at "loadingboot sector... booting..."
Alexander,Jeff
Jeff.Alexander at wwt.com
Wed Apr 27 16:06:50 PDT 2011
The casualty of the day is an HP 8100 Elite CMT. It has a completely different symptom though. It gets past the 'loading boot sector... booting' screen and you see the progress bar that says 'Windows is loading files...' and then it goes to a blank screen with a blinking cursor in the top left corner for a second and then a completely blank screen and that is all she wrote.
I am wondering if you think it might have to do with the problem described in the MEMDISK wiki in section 3.4 " INT 13h access: Not all images will boot completely!" where it mentions WinVBlock and Firadisk.
I am also wondering if the way I have winpe packaged is the best solution. I used the guide here: http://etherboot.org/wiki/winpe_memdisk. I am curious if other methods may be successful.
If you feel this is no longer a syslinux issue and that I shouldn't post this problem here then let me know but I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction.
Thanks,
-Jeff
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From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On Behalf Of Shao Miller
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 11:59 AM
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Subject: Re: [syslinux] 1 model out of a dozen hangs at "loadingboot sector... booting..."
On 4/27/2011 12:25, Alexander,Jeff wrote:
>
> There is only one MEMDISK image being loaded. It is just a winpe image
> that maps back to our image server and loads an HTA menu so that we
> can then do the real work. ;-)
>
Please note that this likely requires more than twice as much RAM as the
file's size. The following article attempts to explain:
http://reboot.pro/14373/
If you use a Windows MEMDISK driver (such as WinVBlock or Firadisk) then
you might be able to employ a different PE or non-PE Windows environment.
> Using the MAC address isn't really an option since we don't have that
> information ahead of time. These are not static machines. These are
> machines that we receive, configure, and then send on their way to
> never see again.
>
Oh, ok.
On 4/27/2011 12:37, Gene Cumm wrote:
>
> I believe I've noticed that WinPE images are generally the most
> cooperative with the raw mode but your mileage may vary.
>
Agreed, and with Windows installation disc images, too.
- Shao Miller
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