[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

-----Original Message-----
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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